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Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory
Author: The Kitchen Directory, and American Housewife
Author: American Antiquarian Cookbook CollectionPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449435793
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The first edition of this very popular nineteenth century cookbook was published in 1839 as The American Housewife, later expanded to The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife and often republished as The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory. Author Anne Howe’s name did not appear on the title page until later editions published after this 1841 version. Her preface states that although she is not an Ude (French chef) or a Kitchiner (popular British cookbook author), she knows the culinary arts as “practiced by good American cooks.” Bemoaning the inadequate instructions and limited practical knowledge expressed in other cookbooks, she presents over 350 recipes from the simplest broths to the most delicate cakes and sweetmeats with efficient instructions and practical economy. In addition to her recipe collection, the book includes recipes on cookery for the sick and making perfumes, as well as sections on housewifery and carving that appear to be simply lifted from earlier works. This edition of The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. The Society collects, preserves, and makes available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.
Early American Herb Recipes
Author: Alice Cooke BrownPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
For early American households, the herb garden was an all-purpose medicine chest. Herbs were used to treat apoplexy (lily of the valley), asthma (burdock, horehound), boils (onion), tuberculosis (chickweed, coltsfoot), palpitations (saffron, valerian), jaundice (speedwell, nettles, toad flax), toothache (dittander), hemorrhage (yarrow), hypochondria (mustard, viper grass), wrinkles (cowslip juice), cancers (bean-leaf juice), and various other ailments. But herbs were used for a host of other purposes as well — and in this fascinating book, readers will find a wealth of information on the uses of herbs by homemakers of the past, including more than 500 authentic recipes, given exactly as they appeared in their original sources. Selected from such early American cookbook classics as Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery, Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife, Lydia Child's The American Frugal Housewife, and other rare publications, the recipes cover the use of herbs for medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and other purposes. Readers will discover not only how herbs were used in making vegetable and meat dishes, gravies and sauces, cakes, pies, soups, and beverages, but also how our ancestors employed them in making dyes, furniture polish, insecticides, spot removers, perfumes, hair tonics, soaps, tooth powders, and numerous other products. While some formulas are completely fantastic, others (such as a sunburn ointment made from hog's lard and elder flowers) were based on long experience and produced excellent results. More than 100 fine nineteenth-century engravings of herbs add to the charm of this enchanting volume — an invaluable reference and guide for plant lovers and herb enthusiasts that will "delight and astound the twentieth-century reader." (Library Journal).
The Bibliographer and Reference List
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Book catalog, Cham-Education of women K
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The American Booksellers Guide
Author: The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books and Pictures: Book catalog, A-L
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
American Cookery Books, 1742-1860
Author: Waldo LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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