Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
New York, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. An early printing, copyright 1871. Hardcover. Brown library buckram boards with original reddish brown cover laid down (glued), no dust jacket. 556 pp. Unillustrated. Good, from the Winterthur library, with back cover label, bookplate, envelope inside back cover, several cataloguing notations pencilled in non-text locations. Page edges sharp. Item #131394
Good index. Age-old advice on food handling and preparation, with recipes, including foods less customary to our times: pigeon pie, pig's head, ragout of squirrel. And then the more usual and the extraordinary, with a historic flavor: "black or wedding cake, with currants, which "if kept in a cool, dry place will not spoil in two months." More treasures await the reader.
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