Rare 1894 Cookbook Dining Room & Kitchen Guide Practical Housekeeping Townsend

Description: Dining Room And Kitchen Revised Edition An Economical Guide In Practical Housekeeping For the American Housewife ; Containing the Choicest Tried and Approved Cookery Recipes By Mrs. Grace Townsend Published By Monarch Book Company Chicago, Illinois - Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 1894 The title-page is undated; the only copyright date stated is 1894. Antique hardcover. Decorated cloth over boards. 7.25" x 9.5" 527 pages. Indexed. Nearly 130 years old. Early printings of this book of cookery and housekeeping are pretty scarce. --------- From the Author's Introduction : "Very few well informed persons dispute the fact that the nature of the food taken by man has an influence upon his brain or mental powers. The object of this book is to present the most approved methods of preparing food in an economical manner. In the preparation of this book the author has kept in mind the fact that a great many of our housewives are compelled to undertake the duties attendant upon making a home pleasant and agreeable without previously having had an opportunity to master the art of cooking , and the general arrangement of a house. To all such persons this book will prove a blessing. There are here given in as simple and plain language as possible, the most economical and tried recipes which are the result of a lifetime devoted to practical housekeeping. In addition to cooking recipes, there are special articles on the general management of the home, including the Nursery, the Dining room, the Laundry and a chapter giving simple remedies for various common diseases. This book is up with the times, and the experienced housewife will find in it many new ideas which will greatly add to her already charming methods of cooking. The beginner will be greatly benefited by the chapter devoted to dinner giving, as special care has been taken to meet in a practical manner the general demand for an article on this subject. Great pains have been taken to give this work a most practical character. The recipes are chosen with a belief that they will be found adapted to he requirements and capabilities of the American household. The wood cuts used to illustrate the text are an innovation, and add greatly to its usefulness. The strong point in favor of good cooking is not so much to gratify the palate, as to perfect the health. The explanation of many fatal disorders is to be found in nothing but badly cooked and ill assorted viands. Our households would enjoy better health, and be better able to withstand sickness when it comes, if pains were only taken to have food well chosen and properly cooked. Life is made all the brighter by satisfactory feeding, and he is a dull philosopher who despises a good dinner. We sit down to the enjoyment of the table more than a thousand times every year, and whoever thoroughly realizes this fact cannot fail to see the necessity of becoming acquainted with the various cooking processes. This book is sent forth with the firm belief that my sister women will stamp it with their approval, and that if the beginners will be guided by it they will be better able to realize that true happiness which can only be found in a pleasant home. Faithfully yours, The Author " ( Mrs. Grace Townsend ) ----------- Includes : The Dining Room , Table Decorations , Holiday Bills of Fare , Fresh Fruits and How Served , Fruit Sauces and Colorings , Fruit Canned and Dried , Preserves Jellies etc. , Bread baking , Biscuit and Rolls , Griddle Cakes , Fritters , Soups With and Without Meat , Fish , Frogs , Eels (etc.) , Fish Sauces and Gravies , Oysters , Lobsters , Clams , Shrimps , Turtles , Carving , Meat , Meats and Sauces , Meats , Preserving Meats , Poultry , Game , Vegetables , Salads , Salad Dressings , Pastry, Pies and Tarts , Puddings and Dumplings , Desserts , Dainty Dishes , Sauces for Pudding , Short Cake , Ice Cream and Ices , Cakes , Crullers and Doughnuts , Breakfast Dishes , Toasts , Eggs , Hot and Cold Beverages , Ices and Sherbets , Dairy Products , Sandwiches , Lunches Picnics and Parties , Fragments , Pickles , Spiced Fruits ( etc. ), Catsups , Candies , Cooking for Invalids , When Foods are in Season ( from Apples to Woodcock ; what month or time of year foods can be found in season), Miscellaneous Recipes ( pages for hand-written recipes ), Scale of Weights and Measures , Heath Suggestions , The Cook's Time Table , The Nursery , The Kitchen , Laundry , Perfumes and Toilet Recipes , Dyeing or Coloring , The Every Day Bill of Fare , Yeast --------- Condition. Binding wear and stains. The inner hinges are split but very firm, and the covers remain well attached. Aging of the paper, toning, foxing. Several pages of additional hand-written recipes ( written in pencil ) on the blank pages included for that purpose. One of the blank recipe pages has a tear ( but no loss of paper ). Otherwise good. Hand-written recipes ( some have a name attached; presumanly the source of the recipe) : Biscuit ( Ioetta Bell ) Snow Flake Cake ( Mrs. Mary Searce ) Lemon Pie ( Della Alexander ) Lemon Pie ( another recipe ) Hickory Nut Cake Chocolate Filling Custard Pie Devils Food ( Mary Kendall ) Lemon Pie ( another recipe, to which was added " Good " ) Chocolate Pie Pumpkin Pie Spiced Pickles ( Mrs. Steve Newman ) Hamburger Roast ( Miss Harden ) Custard Pie ( another ) Mayonnaise Dressing Beef Loaf Sweet Pickles ( Emma Hardin )Bean Salad And on the last page of the book, a penciled-in recipe for making " Hard Lye Soap " ---------------- Worn condition however this is a pretty scarce book of American cookery and housekeeping, printed in the late 1800s, with some additional hand-written recipes. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

Price: 150 USD

Location: Coventry, Rhode Island

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