1882 ORIGINAL VICTORIAN COOKBOOK RECIPES HOUSEHOLD COOKERY DECORATION CAMPING

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THE SUCCESSFUL HOUSEKEEPER A Manuel of Universal Application Especially Adapted To The Every Day Wants of American Housewives; Embracing Several Thousand Thoroughly Tested and Approved Recipes, Care and Culture of Children, Birds, and House Plants; Flower and Window Gardening, Etc.; With Many Valuable Hints on Home Decoration. Published by M. W. Ellsworth and Company. Original 1882 edition. 608 pages. Very good condition. There is a recipe written on the last free end page. Rest of pages appear clean and binding is strong. includes black and white as well as color illustrations. Wonderful rare Victorian era antique. This book contains over 800 cooking recipes as well as 300+ Household recipes. A later editionof this same book recently sold for over $1,000 on ebay. Get this while you can! ILLUSTRATIONS. Bride's Cake, Christmas Cake, Wedding Cake, Floating Island, Coquettes of Rice, Christmas Plum Pudding, Eggs a la Bonne Femme, Mushrooms, Potato Pie, Section of Bullock, " Beef, " Sheep. " Lamb, " Calf, Aitchbone of Beef, Brisket of Beef, Ribs of Beep, Sirloin of Beef, Roast Quarter of Lamb, Leg of Mutton, " " Back, Fowl, to Carve, Goose, " House Pests, Sleep, Aquarium in Window, Tank, Tank (2) . Marine Aquarium, Trellised window, Creepers, Window Garden, Ferneries, PREFACE. In the compilation of this work, we have striven to give the greatest amount of information possible, consistent with the plan adopted, and to so arrange it that any subject sought can be easily and quickly found; and, when found, that it shall contain just the information sought. The tendency of the age is toward the practical, and he who would gain the attention of the public must be concise and to the point. Our aim is to assist in the management of the household, but especially would we enter our plea for improved cookery. Ill- cooked meals are a source of discomfort. Bad cooking is waste — waste of money and loss of comfort. Among the "common things " which educators should teach the rising generation, this should not be overlooked. It is the commonest and yet the most neglected of the branches of female education. In this department we have endeavored to give only those recipes which have stood the test of actual use and received the endorse- ment of the best cooks and caterers of the day, and all of them can be depended upon as being just what they purport to be. We have considered it unnecessary to add the names of the contributors, as most of them would be nearly or quite unknown to the reader, and, therefore, would carry no weight of authority with them, and would serve but to occupy space, which is better used for additional recipes. The greater part of human labor is occupied in the direct production of the materials for human food. All these articles — corn, beef, mutton and such like — are handed over to the female half of the human species to be converted into food for the sustenance of themselves, their husbands, and their families. How do they use their power ? Can they cook ? Have they been taught to cook ? Is it not a fact that, in this country, cooking is one of the lost or undiscovered arts ? The most worthless unit in a family is an ill-managing wife, or an indolent woman of any sort. If she knows nothing of her kitchen, and is at the mercy of the cook, the table will soon become intolerable — bad soup, soft and flabby fish, meat burned outside and raw within. The husband will soon fly from the Barmecide feast, and take refuge in his club, where he will not only find food that he can digest, but at the same time escape from the domestic discord that usually accompanies ill-cooked victuals at home. In short we want common sense in cookery, as in most other things. Food should be used and not abused. Much of it is now absolutely wasted — wasted for want of a little art in cooking it. The advancement of a people is measured by its proficiency in the cuisine. Vice a... read more

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