The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Wahington |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:56Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:56Z |
| dc.date.created | 1824 |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-02-23 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3152 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Cookbooks -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.title | The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Virginia House-wife
Method is the Soul of Management
by
Mary Randolph
Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, (Franklin's Head,) Pennsylvania Avenue. 1824.
PREFACE.
The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a House-keeping life, from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise, to impart knowledge to a Tyro, compelled me to study the subject, and by actual experiment, to reduce every thing, in the culinary line, to proper weights and measures. This I found not only to diminish the necessary attention and labour, but to also be economical; for, when the ingredients employed, were given in just proportions, the article made, was equally good. The government of a family, bears a Liliputian resemblance to the government of a nation. The contents of the Treasury must be known, and great care taken to keep the expenditures from being equal to the receipts. A regular system must be introduced into each department, which may be modified until matured, and sh . . .
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