The Godey's Lady's book receipts and household hints

Preface

In offering to the public the present volume of valuable receipts, we feel that we are supplying a long-felt and urgent want. The thousands of subscribers who for years have found the Lady’s Book the most valuable work in their library, can now make use of hundreds of the best receipts , without being obliged to refer to several numbers of the magazine to find the special directions of which they are in need.

It has been in answer to frequent urgent inquiries of how and where to find certain directions, that the present volume has been carefully selected and compiled from the best of the receipts published in the Lady’s Book, most of them being contributed for that periodical only, and not to be found in any other

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publication. These are from the practical experience of old housekeepers, and have all been carefully tested before publication.

In the present compact shape, the subscribers to the Lady’s Book will recognize many old favorites, and doubtless find new ones that have been forgotten or overlooked, when spread over several years of the magazine.

No trouble has been spared in the endeavor to render it complete and useful by the addition of a complete alphabetical index, that will aid the housekeeper in search of any subject treated, to turn at once to the page wanted, without hunting through the whole book.