This book opens the new series of books "Cookery. Classic editions", that will be entered by the authors and books that tried known and not popular, but meaningful for the time, each at one time, to generalize experience in culinary history of Russia and not only.Here that was written by Elena Молоховец concerning the motivation at creation of book : "Kitchen is this in its way art that without guidance is acquired not for years, but in tens years of inexperience, sometimes treats very expensive, in particular to the young married couples. This book was made by me exceptionally for young hostesses, to deliver to them a case without own experience and in short time to get a concept about an economy in general and приохотить them those the housework".A book is adapted and expounded by a modern language and terms, besides that some features of that vocabulary are stored for an aroma past tenses.