A sensible stock-based group of main dish recipes (some steamed desserts included), excellent for the beginning cook. No rhapsodizing--simply business-like directions for making basic stocks, straining, clarifying, using in soups, meats, fish, vegetables. Each section includes recipes for steaming with stock, a process often overlooked today. Mrs. Loebel's concluding recipe--for an extravagant trifle--is the only one oven-bound, included because it's her husband's favorite. A comfortable, competent cookbook by goodwife Loebel.