Excerpt from The Practical Cookbook: A Book of Economical Recipes Food is cooked to destroy any germs it may contain and to render it more palatable, more digestible, or both. Cooking is the preparation of food by the aid of heat. The common methods of cooking are (i) with water, as boiling, steaming, simmering, and stewing; (2) in the oven, as roast ing or baking; (3) by direct heat, as broiling; (4) with fat, as frying or sauteing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.