Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties by Janet McKenzie Hill is a great resource for anyone looking to impress their guests with delicious and elegant dishes. The book is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different type of meal - salads, sandwiches, and chafing-dish dainties.

The recipes in this book are easy to follow and use simple ingredients that most people already have in their kitchen. The instructions are clear and concise, making it easy for even novice cooks to recreate the dishes. The book also includes helpful tips and variations for each recipe, allowing readers to customize the dishes to their liking.

One of the things I appreciated most about this book is the wide range of recipes it offers. From classic Caesar salad to unique sandwich fillings like curried chicken salad, there is something for everyone in this book. The chafing-dish dainties section is particularly impressive, with recipes for elegant dishes like lobster Newburg and Welsh rarebit.

Overall, Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties is a great addition to any cook's collection. Whether you are hosting a dinner party or simply looking to upgrade your lunch routine, this book has something for everyone. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to add some variety and elegance to their meals.

Book Description:
There is positive need of more widespread knowledge of the principles of cookery. Few women know how to cook an egg or boil a potato properly, and the making of the perfect loaf of bread has long been assigned a place among the "lost arts."

By many women cooking is considered, at best, a homely art,—a necessary kind of drudgery; and the composition, if not the consumption, of salads and chafing-dish productions has been restricted, hitherto, chiefly to that half of the race "who cook to please themselves." But, since women have become anxious to compete with men in any and every walk of life, they, too, are desirous of becoming adepts in tossing up an appetizing salad or in stirring a creamy rarebit. And yet neither a pleasing salad, especially if it is to be composed of cooked materials, nor a tempting rarebit can be evolved, save by happy accident, without an accurate knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie all cookery. - Summary by the Preface