By Marion Harland.
A practical and exhaustive manual of cookery and housekeeping, containing thousands of carefully proved recipes — prepared for the housewife, not for the chef — and many chapters on the care and management of the home — the final expression of her life’s experience. (1903) 948 pages.
By Martha McCulloch-Williams.
Deckrations by Russel Crofoot. “Let me cook the dinners of a nation, and I shall not care who makes its laws. Women if they did but know it, might well paraphrase a famous saying. Proper dinners mean so much — good blood, good health, good judgment, good conduct.”
New York. (1913) 144 pages.
Containing Receipts and Cookery and Directions for Carving. Also the Art of Composing the most simple and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavouring essences, pastry, preserves, puddings, pickles, &c. With A Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families. The quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure, being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of William Kitchiner, M.D. Adapted to the American Public by a Medical Gentleman. (1830) 572 pages.
A Guide and Counselor for the Household, by the Home Companion Company, New York. Subjects covered are Wise Advice on Matrimony; Tips on Kitchen, Dining and Entertaining; Medical advice; Care of Babies; Toilet hints; Paternal duties; Matrimonial pitfalls; Special advice for husbands; The Art of Buying; Legal hints; Furnishing and care of the household. (1911) 125 pages.
by Helen Cramp Ph.B.,
Economical recipes designed to meet the needs of the modern housekeeper. Including chapters on entertaining, paper-bag cookery, casserole cookery , fireless cookery, chafing-dish cookery, and meat substitutes. With supplementary chapters on food economy and war-time recipes. Prepared in co-operation with the United States food administration. University of Chicago .
“This volume is dedicated to the busy American housewife, in the hope that its use will lighten her toil and prove to be a trusted helper in the numerous duties which she so nobly undertakes. We believe that the pages of this book… will be welcomed as a great boon by many thousands of women, whether they do the work themselves or merely supervise it.” This volume continues with advice on how to keep a healthy household and professional advice on particular illnesses, especially tuberculosis.
“This volume is dedicated to the busy American housewife, in the hope that its use will lighten her toil and prove to be a trusted helper in the numerous duties which she so nobly undertakes. We believe that the pages of this book… will be welcomed as a great boon by many thousands of women, whether they do the work themselves or merely supervise it. The many recipes here compiled cover every variety of food and are easy to follow in practical us ; the lists of ready-made menus for various kinds of meals will often be referred to, and this department will be found to contain valuable household recipes, and many general hints on serving and table-setting which distinguish this part of the work from the ordinary cook book.
CONTENTS. PART I. Introductory Lecture. Syllabus of Culinary Lectures. Directions for Carving, with Cuts. Bills of Fare, and Observations on laying out Tables and arranging Dinners. Company Suppers. Dejeuners a la Fourchette. PART II. ELEMENTARY PROCESSES OF COOKERY.Chap. I. Boiling and Steaming. II. To boil a Round of Beef; etc III. Roasting and Baking. IV. Broiling. V. Frying. VI Broths, Soups, and Gravies, Stew or Mouthful Soups, Fish Soups. VII. Fish and Fish-Pies. VIII Vegetables and Roots. IX Sauces, Essences, Pickles, Catsups, Vinegars Herb-Wines, Mustards, and other Condiments. PART III Made dishes. French Cookery. National Dishes. PART IV Liqueurs, boiling times, culinary terms .Preparations for the sick. Cleaning and Preserving.
Oliver and Boyd. Edinburgh. 1862. 569 p.