11 / 158
#lti«Ctttte
3Klecipesi
for
Momt
iWatte
Wint^
INTRODUCTION
The
idea
of
compiling
this
little
volume
occurred
to
me
while
on
a
visit
to
some
friends
at
their
summer
home
in
a
quaint
New
England
village.
The
little
town
had
once
been
a
thriving
seaport,
but
now
con-
sisted
of
hardly
more
than
a
dozen
old-
fashioned
Colonial
houses
facing
each
other
along
one
broad,
well-kept
street.
A
few
blind lanes
led
to
less
pretentious
homes;
and
still
farther
back
farmhouses
dotted
the
landscape
and
broke
the
dead
line
of
the
horizon.
For
peace,
contentment,
and
quiet
seren-
ity
of
life,
this
little
village
might
have
been
Arcadia;
the
surrounding
country,
the
land
of
Beulah.
The
ladies
of
the
Great
Houses,
as
the
11