The new housekeeper’s manual: embracing a new revised edition of the American woman’s home; or, Principles of domestic science. Being a guide to economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes. By Catherine sic] E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Together with The handy cook-book: a complete condensed guide to wholesome, economical, and delicious cooking. Giving nearly 500 choice and well-tested receipts. By Catherine E. Beecher ...

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THE NEW

HOUSEKEEPER'S MANUAL:

Introduction

The chief cause of woman's disabilities and sufferings, that women are not trained, as men are, for their peculiar duties — Aim of this volume to elevate the honor and remuneration of domestic employment — Woman's duties, and her utter lack of training for them — Qualifications of the writers of this volume to teach the matters proposed — Experience and study of woman's work — Conviction of the dignity and importance of it — The great social and moral power in her keeping — The principles and teachings of Jesus Christ the true basis of woman's rights and duties. — Pages 13-16.

TEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

Object of the Family State — Duty of the elder and stronger to raise the younger, weaker, and more ignorant to an equality of advantages — Discipline of the family — The example of Christ one of self-sacrifice as man's elder brother — His assumption of a low estate — His manual labor — His trade — Woman the chief minister of the family estate — Man the out-door laborer and provider — Labor and self-denial in the mutuaJ relations of home-life, honorable, healthful, economical, enjoyable, and Christian.— Pages 17-22.

A CHRISTIAN HOUSE.

True wisdom in building a home — Necessity of economizing time, labor, and expense, by the close packing of conveniences — Plan of a model cottage— Proportions — Piazzas — Entry — Stairs and landings — Large room — Movable Screen — Convenient bedsteads — A good mattress — A cheap and convenient ottoman — Kitchen and stove-room — The stove-room and its arrangements — Second or attic story — Closets, corner dressing-tables, windows, balconies, water and earth-closets, shoe-bag, piece-bag — Basement, closets, refrigerator, washtubs, etc. — Laundry — General wood work — Conservatories — Average estimate of cost. — Pages 23-42.

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A HEALTHFUL HOME.

Household murder— Poisoning and starvation the inevitable result of bad air in public balls and private homes — Good air as needful as good food — Structure and operations of the lungs and their capillaries and air-cells — How people in a confined room will deprive the air of oxygen and overload it with refuse carbonic acid — Starvation of the living body deprived of oxygen — The skin and its twenty-eight miles of perspiratory tubes — Reciprocal action of plants and animals — Historical examples of foul-air poisoning — Outward effects of habitual breathing of bad air — Quotations from scientific authorities. — Pages 43-58.

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SCIENTIFIC DOMESTIC VENTILATION.

An open fireplace secures due ventilation — Evils of substituting air-tight stoves and furnace heating — Tendency of warm air to rise and of cool air to sink — Ventilation of mines — Ignorance of architects — Poor ventilation in most houses — Mode of ventilating laboratories — Creation of a current of warm air in a flue open at top and bottom of the room — Flue to be built into chimney : method of utilizing it. — Pages 59-65.

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STOVES, FURNACES, AND CHIMNEYS.

The general properties of heat, conduction, convection, radiation, reflection— Cooking done by radiation the simplest but most wasteful mode : by convection (as in stoves and furnaces) the cheapest — The range — The model cooking-stove — Interior arrangements and principles — Contrivances for economizing heat, labor, time, fuel, trouble, and expense — Its durability, simplicity, etc. — Chimneys : why they smoke and how to cure them — Furnaces : the dryness of their heat — Necessity of moisture in warm air — How to obtain and regulate it. — Pages 66-83.

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Significance of beauty in making home attractive and useful in education — Exemplification of economical and tasteful furniture — The carpet lounge, lambrequins, curtains, ottomans, easy-chair, centre-table— Money left for pictures — Chromos — Pretty frames — Engravings — Statu ettes — Educatory influence of works of art — Natural adornments — Mate rials in the woods and fields — Parlor-gardens — Hanging baskets — Fern shields — Ivy, its beauty and tractableness — Window, with flowers, vine?

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and pretty plants — Rustic stand for flowers — Ward's case — How to make it economically — Bowls and vases of rustic work for growing plants — Ferns, how and when to gather them — General remarks. — Pages 84-103.

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THE CARE OF HEALTH.

Importance of some knowledge of the body and its needs — Fearful re sponsibility of entering upon domestic duties in ignorance — The fundamental vital principle — Cell-life — Wonders of the microscope — Cellmultiplication — Constant interplay of decay and growth necessary to life — The red and white cells of the blood — Secreting and converting power — The nervous system — The brain and the nerves — Structural arrangement and functions — The ganglionic system — The nervous fluid — Necessity of properly apportioned exercise to nerves of sensation and of motion — Evils of excessive or insufficient exercise — Equal development of the whole. — Pages 104-112.

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DOMESTIC EXERCISE.

Connection of muscles and nerves — Microscopic cellular muscular fibre- Its mode of action — Dependence on the nerves of voluntary and involuntary motion — How exercise of muscles quickens circulation of the blood which maintains all the processes of life — Dependence of equilibrium upon proper muscular activity — Importance of securing exercise that will interest the mind. — Pages 113-118.

HEALTHFUL FOOD.

apportionment of elements in food : carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, iron, silicon, etc. — Large proportion of water in the human body — Dr. Holmes on the interchange of death and life — Constituent parts of a kernel of wheat — Comparison of different kinds of food — General directions for diet — Hunger the proper guide and guard of appetite — Evils of over-eating — Structure and operations of the stomach — Times and quantity for eating — Stimulating and nourishing food — Americans eat too much meat — Wholesome effects of Lenten fasting- -Matter and manner of eating — Causes of debilitation from misuse of food. — Pages 119-137.

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HEALTHFUL DRINKS.

Stimulating drinks not necessary — Their immediate evil effects upon the human body and tendency to grow into habitual desires — The arguments for and against stimulus — Microscopic revelations of the effects of alcohol on the cellular tissue of the brain — Opinions of high scientific authorities against its use — No need of resorting to stimulants either for refreshment, nourishment, or pleasure — Tea and coffee an extensive cause of much nervous debility and suffering — Tend to wasteful use in the kitchen — Are seldom agreeable at first to children — Are dangerous to sensitive, nervous organizations, and should be at least regulated — Hot drinks unwholesome, debilitating, and destructive to teeth, throat, and stomach — Warm drinks agreeable and not unhealthful — Cold drinks not to be too freely used during meals — Drinking while eating always injurious to digestion. — Pages 138-149.

CLEANLINESS.

Health and comfort depend on cleanliness — Scientific treatment of the skin, the most complicated organ of the body — Structure and arrangement of the skin, its layers, cells, nerves, capillaries, absorbents, oil-tubes, perspiration-tubes, etc. — The mucous membrane— Phlegm — The secreting organs — The liver, kidney, pancreas, salivary and lachrymal glands — Sympathetic connection of all the bodily organs — Intimate connection of the skin with all the other organs — Proper mode of treating the skin — Experiment showing happy effects of good treatment. — Pages 150-157.

CLOTHING.

Fashion attacks the very foundation of the body, the bones — BoDes com posed of animal and mineral elements — General construction and arrangement— Health of bones dependent on nourishment and exercise of body — Spine — Distortions produced by tight dressing — Pressure of interior organs upon each other and upon the bones — Displacement of stomach, diaphragm, heart, intestines, and pelvic or lower organs — Women liable to peculiar distresses — A well-fitted jacket to replace stiff corsets, supporting the bust above and the under skirts below — Dress ing of young children — Safe for a healthy child to wear as little clothing as will make it thoroughly comfortable — Nature the guide — The very young and the very old need the most clothing. — Pages 158-160

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GOOD COOKING.

Bad cooking prevalent in America — Abundance of excellent materia] — General management of food here very wasteful and extravagant — Five great departments of Cookery — Bread — What it should be, how to spoil and how to make it — Different modes of aeration — Baking — Evils of hot bread. — Butter — Contrast between the butter of America and of European countries — How to make good butter. — Meat — Generally used too newly killed — Lack of nicety in butcher's work — Economy of French butchery, carving, and trimming — Modes of cooking meats — The frying-pan — True way of using it — The French art of making delicious soups and stews — Vegetables — Their number and variety in America — The potato — How to cook it, a simple yet difficult operation — Roasted, boiled, fried. — Tea — Warm table drinks generally — Coffee — Tea — Chocolate. — Confectionery — Ornamental cookery — Pastry, ices, iellies.— Pages 167-190.

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EARLY RISING.

A virtue peculiarly American and democratic— In aristocratic countries, labor considered degrading — The hours of sunlight generally devoted to labor by the working classes and to sleep by the indolent and wealthy — Sunlight necessary to health and growth whether of vegetables or animals— Particularly needful for the sick — Substitution of artificial light and heat, by night, a great waste of money — Eight hours' sleep enough — Excessive sleep debilitating — Early rising necessary to a well-regulated family, to the amount of work to be done, to the community, to schools, and to all classes in American society. — Pages 191-196.

DOMESTIC MANNERS.

Good manners the expression of benevolence in personal intercourse — Serious defects in manners of the Americans — Causes of abrupt manners to be found in American life — Want of clear discrimination between men —Necessity for distinctions of superiority : and subordination — Importance that young mothers should seriously endeavor to remedy this defect, while educating their children — Democratic principle of equal rights to be applied, not to our own interests but to those of others — The same courtesy to be extended to all classes — Necessary distinctions arising from mutual relations to be observed — The strong to defer to the weak — Precedence yielded by men to women in America — Good manners must be cultivated in early life — Mutual relations of husband and wife — Parents and children — The rearing of children to courtesy — De Tocqueville on American manners. — Pages 197-211.

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GOOD TEMPER IN THE HOUSEKEEPER,

Easier for a household under the guidance of an equable temper in the mistress — Dissatisfied looks and sharp tones destroy the comfort of system, neatness, and economy — Considerations to aid the housekeeper — Importance and dignity of her duties — Difficulties to be overcome — Good policy to calculate beforehand upon the derangement of wellarranged plans — Object of housekeeping, the comfort and well-being of the family — The end should not be sacrificed to secure the means — Possible to refrain from angry tones — Mild speech most effective — Exemplification— Allowances to be made for servants and children — Power of religion to impart dignity and importance to the ordinary and petty details of domestic life. — Pages 212-219.

HABITS OF SYSTEM AND ORDER.

Relative importance and difficulty of the duties a woman is called to perform— Her duties not trivial — A habit of system and order necessary — Right apportionment of time — General principles — Christianity to be the foundation — Intellectual and social interests to be preferred to gratification of taste or appetite — Neglect of health a sin in the sight of God — Regular season of rest appointed by the Creator — Divisions of time — Systematic arrangement of house articles and other conveniences — Regular employment for each member of a family — Children — Family work — Forming habits of system — Early rising a very great aid — Due apportionment of time to the several duties. — Pages 220-232.

GIVING IN CHARITY.

No point of duty more difficult to fix by rule than charity — First consideration— Object for which we are placed in this world — Self-denying Benevolence. — Second consideration — Natural principles not to be exterminated, but regulated and controlled. — Third consideration — Superfluities sometimes proper, and sometimes not. — Fourth consideration — No rule of duty right for one and not for all — The opposite of this principle tested — Some use of superfluities necessary — Plan for keeping an account of necessities and superfluities — Untoward results of our actions do not always prove that we deserve blame — General principles to guide in deciding upon objects of charity — Who are our neighbors— The most in need to be first relieved — Not much need of charity for physical wants in this country — Associated charities — Indiscriminate charity — Impropriety of judging the charities of others — Pages 233-246.

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ECONOMY OF TIME AND EXPENSES.

Economy, value, and right apportionment of time — Laws appointed by God for the Jews — Christianity removes the restrictions laid on the Jews, but demands all our time to be devoted to our own best interests and tho good of our fellow-men — Enjoyment connected with every duty — Various modes of economizing time — System and order — Uniting several objects in one employment — Odd intervals of time — Aiding others in economizing time — Economy in expenses — Contradictory notions— General principles in which all agree — Knowledge of income and expenses— Evils of want of system and forethought — Young ladies should early learn to be systematic and economical. — Pages 247-254.

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HEALTH OF MIND.

Intimate connection between the body and mind — Brain excited by improper stimulants taken into the stomach — Mental faculties then affected— Causes of mental disease — Want of oxygenized blood — Fresh air absolutely necessary— Excessive exercise of the intellect or feelings — Such attention to religion as prevents the performance of other duties, wrong — Unusual precocity in children usually the result of a diseased brain — Idiocy often the result, or the precocious child sinks below the average of mankind — This evil yet prevalent in colleges and other seminaries— A medical man necessary in every seminary — Some pupils always needing restraint in regard to study — A third cause of mental disease, the want of appropriate exercise of the various faculties of the mind — Extract from Dr. Combe — Beneficial results of active intellectual employments — Indications of a diseased mind. — Pages 255-262.

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THE CARE OF INFANTS.

Herbert Spencer on the treatment of offspring — Absurdity of undertaking to rear children without any knowledge of how to do it — Foolish management of parents generally the cause of evils ascribed to Providence— Errors of management during the first two years — Food of child and of mother — Warning as to use of too much medicine — Fresh air — Care of the skin — Dress — Sleep — Bathing — Change of air — Habits — Dangers of the teething period — Constipation — Diarrhea — Teething- How to relieve its dangers — Feverishness — Use of water. — Pages 263- 274.

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THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

Physical education of children — Animal diet to be avoided for the very young — Result of treatment at Albany Orphan Asylum — Good ventilation of nurseries and schools — Moral training to consist in forming habits of submission, self-denial, and benevolence — General suggestions — Extremes of sternness and laxity to be avoided — Appreciation of childish desires and feelings — Sympathy — Partaking in games and employments — Inculcation of principles preferable to multiplication of commands— Rewards rather than penal ties — Severe tones of voice- Children to be kept happy — Sensitive children — Self-denial — Deceit and honesty — Immodesty and delicacy — Dreadful penalties consequent upon youthful impurities — Religious training. — Pages 275-286.

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DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS AND SOCIAL DUTIES.

Children need more amusement than older persons — Its object, to afford rest and recreation to the mind and body — Example of Christ — No amusements to be introduced that will tempt the weak or over-excite the young — Puritan customs — Work followed by play — Dramatic exercises, dancing, and festivity wholesomely enjoyed — The nine o'clock bell — The drama and the dance — Card-playing — Novel-reading — Taste for solid reading — Cultivation of fruits and flowers — Music — Collecting of shells, plants, and minerals — Games — Exercise of mechanical skill for boys — Sewing, cutting, and fitting — General suggestions — Social and domestic duties — Family attachments — Hospitality. — Pages 287-302.

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CARE OF THE AGED.

Preservation of the aged, designed to give opportunity for self-denial ana loving care — Patience, sympathy, and labor for them to be regarded as privileges in a family — The young should respect and minister unto the aged — Treating them as valued members of the family — Engaging them in domestic games and sports — Reading aloud — Courteous attention to their opinions — Assistance in retarding decay of faculties by helping them to exercise — Keeping up interest of the infirm in domestic affairs — Great care to preserve animal heat — Ingratitude to the aged its baseness — Chinese regard for old age. — Pages 303-306-

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THE CARE OF SERVANTS.

Origin of the Yankee term "help" — Days of good health and intelligent house-keeping — Growth of wealth tends to multiply hired service — American young women should be trained in housekeeping for the guidance of ignorant and shiftless servants — Difficulty of teaching servants— Reaction of society in favor of women's intellectuality, in danger of causing a new reaction — American girls should do more work — Social estimate of domestic service — Dearth of intelligent do mestic help — Proper mode of treating servants — General rules and special suggestions — Hints from experience — Woman's first " right," liberty to do what she can — Domestic duties not to be neglected for operations in other spheres — Servants to be treated with respect — Errors of heartless and of too indulgent employers — Mistresses of American families necessarily missionaries and instructors. — Pages 307-334

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CARE OF THE SICK.

Prominence given to care and cure of the sick by our Saviour — Every woman should know what to do in the case of illness — Simple remedies best — Fasting and perspiration — Evils of constipation — Modes of relieving it — Remedies for colds — Unwise to tempt the appetite of the sick — Suggestion for the sick-room — Ventilation — Needful articles — The room, bed, and person of the patient to be kept neat — Care to preserve animal warmth — The sick, the delicate, the aged — Food always to be carefully prepared and neatly served — Little modes of refreshment — Implicit obedience to the physician — Care in purchasing medicines — Exhibition of cheerfulness, gentleness, and sympathy — Knowledge and experience of mind — Lack of competent nurses — Failings of nurses — Sensitiveness of the sick — " Sisters of Charity," the reason why they are such excellent nurses — Illness in the family a providential opportunity of training children to love and usefulness. — Pages 335-347.

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ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.

Mode of treating cuts, wounds, severed arteries — Bad bruises to be bathed in hot water — Sprains treated with hot fomentation and rest — Burns cured by creosote, wood-soot, or flour — Drowning ; most approved mode of treatment — Poisons and their antidotes — Soda, saleratus, potash, sulphuric or oxalic acid, lime or baryta, iodine or iodide of potassium, prussic acid, antimony, arsenic, lead, nitrate of silver, phosphorus, alcohol, tobacco, opium, strychnia, — Bleeding at the lungs, stomach, throat, nose — Accidents from lightning — Stupefaction, from coal-gas or foul air — Fire — Fainting— Coolness and presence of mind. — Pages 348-352'

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SEWING, GUTTING, AND MENDING.

Different kinds of Stitch — Overstitch — Hems — Tucks — Fells — Gores — Buttonholes — Whipping — Gathering — Darning — Basting — Sewing — Work-baskets — To make a frock — Patterns — Fitting — Lining — Thin Silks — Figured and plain silks — Plaids — Stripes — Linen and Cotton — How to buy — Shirts — Chemises — Night-gowns — Under-skirts — Mending— Silk dresses — Broadcloth — Hose — Shoes, etc. — Bedding — Mattresses— Sheeting — Bed-linen. — Pages 353-359.

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FIRES AND LIGHTS.

Woodfires — Shallow fireplaces — Utensils — The best wood for fires — How to measure a load — Splitting and piling — Ashes — Cleaning up — Stoves and grates — Ventilation — Moisture — Stove-pipe thimbles — Anthracite coal — Bituminous coal — Care to be used in erecting stoves and pipes — Lights — Poor economy to use bad light — Gas — Oil — Kerosene — Points to be considered : Steadiness, Color, Heat — Argand burners — Dangers of kerosene — Tests of its safety and light-giving qualities — Care of lamps — Utensils needed — Shades — Night-lamps — How to make candles — Moulded— Dipped— Rush-lights.— Pages 360-366.

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THE CARE OF ROOMS.

Parlors — Cleansing — Furniture — Pictures — Hearths and jambs — Stains in marble — Carpets — Chambers and bedrooms — Ventilation — How to make a bed properly — Servants should have single beds and comfortable rooms — Kitchens — Light — Air — Cleanliness — How to make a cheap oilcloth— The sink — Washing dishes — Kitchen furniture — Crockery — Ironware — Tinware — Basketware — Other articles — Closets — Cellars— Dryness and cleanliness imperative necessities — Store-rooms — Modes of destroying insects and vermin. — Pages 367-378.

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THE CARE OF YARDS AND GARDENS.

Preparation of soil for pot-plants — For hot-beds — For planting flower seeds — For garden seeds — Transplanting — To re-pot house plants — The laying out of yards and gardens — Transplanting trees — The care of house plants. — Pages 379-383.

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THE PROPAGATION OF PLANTS.

Part II

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HEALTH, ECONOMY, AND PLEASURE IN FOOD.

Special advantages of Part II. — Rules of health in regard to food and* drink — Measures used in cooking. — Pages 433-435.

II. Marketing And The Care Of Meats

Marketing — Beef — Different " cuts," etc. — Veal — Mutton — Pork — Poultry — Fish — Shell-fish — Care of meats — To salt down beef — To cleanse calf's head and feet — To prepare rennet — To salt down fish — To try out lard — Molasses-cured hams — Brine for corning hams, beef, pork, etc. — Another— Brine by measure — To salt down pork — To prepare cases for sausages — Sausage meat — Another recipe — Bologna sausages — To smoke hams. — Pages 436-445.

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STEWS AND SOUPS.

New soup- and stew-kettle — General directions — Stews : of Beef and potato; Mutton and turnip, (French ;) Simple mutton; Beef, with vegetable flavors ; Fowl, with celery or tomatoes — Irish stew — Veal stew — Another — Pilaff (Turkish) — Rice or hominy stew — English beef stew — Pot. au Feu (French) — Olla Podrida (Spanish) — French mutton stew — French modes of cooking — Flavors — Soup powder. — Pages 446-452.

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SOUPS.

General directions — Soup stock — Soup of potato — Plain beef — Rich beef — Green pea — Dried bean or pea — Clam — Vegetable and meat for summer— Dried pea, with salt pork — Dried bean or pea, with meat stock — Mutton — Vegetable (French) — Plain calf's head — Simple mutton. — Pages 453-456.

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HASHES.

Four ways of spoiling hashes — Hashes : of Fresh meats, seasoned ; Cold fresh meats and potatoes ; Meat, with eggs ; Meat, with tomatoes ; Beef; Veal; Rice and cold meats; Bread-crumbs and cold meats; Another ; Cold beefsteak ; Same, with potatoes and turnips ; Cold mutton or venison ; Corned beef; Cold ham — Meats warmed over — To cook cold meats — Cold meat hash — Souse — Tripe. — Pages 457-460.

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BOILED MEATS.

To cook tough beef — Boiled ham — Beef — Fowls — Fricasseed fowls — To boil leg or shoulder of veal, mutton, or lamb — Calf's feet — Calf's liver and sweet-breads — Kidneys — Pillau — Smoked tongue — Corned beef — Partridges or pigeons — Ducks — Turkey. — Pages 461-463.

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ROAST AND BAKED MEATS.

The best beef — Brown flour for gravies — Roast beef — To roast in a cook-stove — Roast pork ; Mutton ; Veal ; Poultry — Pot-pie of beef, veal, or chicken — Mutton and beef-pie — Chicken-pie — Rice chicken-pie — Potato-pie— Calf s head.— Pages 464-467.

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BROILED AND FRIED MEATS AND RELISHES.

Boiled mutton or lamb chops ; Beefsteak ; Fresh pork ; Ham ; Sweetbreads ; Veal — Pork relish — Frying — Calf's or pig's liver — Beef liver — Egg omelet — Frizzled beef — Veal chase — Codfish relish — Another — Salt herrings.— Pages 468-469.

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PICKLES.

General directions — Sweet pickles — To pickle Tomatoes ; Peaches ; Peppers ; Nasturtions ; Onions ; Gherkins ; Mushrooms ; Cucumbers : Wal-

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nuts ; Mangoes ; Cabbage — To prepare tomatoes for eating — Martinoes — Spiced cucumber pickles — Indiana pickles — Cauliflower or broccoli. — Pages 470-473.

SAUCES AND SALADS.

Milk and egg sauce — Drawn butter — Mint sauce — Cranberry sauce — Apple sauce — Walnut or butternut catsup — Mock capers — Salad dressing — Turkey or chicken salad — Lettuce salad — Tomato catsup. — Pages 474-475.

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FISH.

Oysters, stewed ; Fried ; Scalloped ; Broiled — Oyster fritters — Oyster omelet— Pickled oysters — Roast oysters — Scallops — Clams — Clam chowder —Fish, boiled ; Broiled ; Baked— Pickle for cold fish — Pages 476-477.

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VEGETABLES.

General remarks — Potatoes — Old potatoes — Potato puffs — Sweet-potatoes — Green corn — Succotash — Oyster-plant or salsify — Egg-plant — Carrots — Beets — Parsnips — Pumpkin and squash — Celery — Radishes — Onions — Tomatoes — Cucumbers — Cabbage and cauliflower — Aspaiagus — Macaroni.—Pages 478-481.

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FAMILY BREAD.

General remarks — Fine and unbolted flour — Middlings — Kneading — Yeast : Hop and potato ; Potato ; Hard — Bread : of fine flour ; Of middling or unbolted flour ; Raised with water ; Rye and Indian ; Third ; Rye ; Oat -meal , Pumpkin ; Apple ; Corn-meal— Sweet rolls of corn-meal — Soda biscuit — Yeast biscuit — Potato biscuit — Buns. — Pages 482- 487.

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BREAKFAST AND SUPPER.

General supplies — Receipts for corn-meal — Hominy — Rice — Economical breakfast dish — Biscuits of sour milk and flour — Pearl or cracked wheat — Rye and corn meal — Oat-meal — Wheat muffins — Sally Lunn improved — Cream griddle-cakes — Royal crumpets — Muffins — Waffles — Drop-cakes — Sachem's head corn-cake — Rice waffles — A rice dish — To use cold rice — Buckwheat cakes — Cottage cheese — Eggs. — Pages 488-492.

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PUDDINGS AND PIES.

Sweet food, remarks— Queen of all puddings — Flour pudding — Flour and fruit pudding — Rusk and milk — Rusk pudding — Meat and rusk pudding— A good pudding — Pan dowdy — Corn-meal pop-over — Best apple-pie — Puddings : of rice ; Bread and fruit ; Boiled fr.uit ; Curds (English) — Common apple-pie — Plain custard — Another —Mush or hasty pudding— Stale bread pudding — Rennet wine — Rennet custard — Bird's nest pudding — Minute pudding of potato slarch — Tapioca pudding — Cocoa-nut pudding — New-England squash or pumpkin-pie — Ripe fruit pies, Peach, Cherry, Plum, Currants, and Strawberry — Mock cream — Pudding of bread-crumbs and fruit — Bread and apple dumplings — Indian pudding without eggs — Boiled Indian and suet pudding — Dessert of rice and fruit — Another — Cold rice and stewed or grated apple — Rich flour pudding — Apple-pie — Spiced apple-tarts — Baked Indian pudding— Apple custard — Macaroni or vermicelli pudding — Green-corn pudding — Bread pudding for invalids or young children — A good pudding— Loaf pudding — Lemon pudding — Green-corn patties — Cracker plum-pudding — Sauces for puddings, liquid — Hard — Another — A healthful sauce— Universal sauce — Paste for puddings and pies — Pie-crusts, without fats ; Made with butter, very rich. — Pages 493-503.

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C A K E.

General directions — Cake raised with powders — One, two, three, four cake — Chocolate ; Jelly ; Orange ; Almond and cocoa-nut — Cake raised with eggs — Pound cake ; Plain ; Fruit ; Huckleberry ; Gold and silver ; Rich sponge ; Plain sponge — Gingerbread, etc. — Aunt Esther's gingerbread— Sponge gingerbread — Ginger snaps — Seed cookies — Fried cakes — Cakes raised with yeast — Plain loaf-cake — Rich loaf-cake— Dough-cake — Icing for cake. — Pages 504-508.

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