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Anna Barrows, a pioneer in home economics education, compiled this small book of recipes, superstitions and legends, medicinal uses, and other cultural associations of the egg.  Her goal was to promote the use and expand the production of eggs.  This little book is full of tidbits of information about the egg and its presence in human history: from tips on ways to use eggs in daily life - though maybe scientifically suspect these days (“The whole of a raw egg…rubbed into the hair occasionally to stimulate its growth and prevent falling off”), to the chemical properties of eggs used in manuf