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THE VIRGINIA HOUSE-WIFE, | OR
Contents
ED } Gece SOUPS. age, awe, .
Asparagus soup, - - 13]|Directions for the pieces in , Beef soup, ~ mn dcajom 3i| the different Grauteny of Gravy soup, - - - 14]) veal, 35 Soup with Bouill, - - sr Veal cutlets from the fillet .Veal soup, © = ihce or leg, 35 Oyster soup, | - - - 16] Ve cheps, 36° Barley soup, - - - ‘Veal cutlets, 3 Dried peasoup, -~ = y [Knuckle of veal, 37 Green peasoup, - - 17)|\Baked fillet of veal, 37 Ochrasoup, - - «+ 18},Scotch collops of veal, 3 Hare'or Rabbit soup, - 18]/Veal olives, - 3 Soup of any kind of old fm, . |Ragout of a breast of veal, 38 Catfish soup, - ¢ 9) Fricando of veal, - 38 Onion soup, - -— = Hs ‘To make a pie of sweetbreads To dress turtle, - - 20)| and’ oysters, 39 For the soup, - - 22))Mock turtle of calf’s tiéad, 39 Mock turtle soup of cds head, 229/'To grillacalf’shead, - 40 To collar a calf’s head, Al.
BEEF. Calf’s heart, a.nice dish, AL Calf’s feet fricassee, - 42 Directions for curing beef, 23|/Tofry calf’sfeet, - - 42 To dry beef for summer use, 24/|To prepare Rennet, ° 42 To corn beef in hot weather, 26||To hash a calf’s head, - 48 _ Important observations on |To bake acalf’shead, - 43 roasting, boiling, frying, &c. 26|'To stuff and roast calf’s liver, 44
Preface
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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 method I found not only to diminish the necessary attention and labor, but to be also economical: for, when the ingredients employed were given in just proportions, the article made was always equally good. The government of a family, bears a Lilliputian 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 should then pass into an inyiolable law. The grand arcanuni of management lies in three simple rules :—* Let every thing be done at a proper time, keep every thing in its proper place, and put every thing to its proper use.” If the mistress of a family, will every morning examine minutely the different departments of her household, she must detect errors in their infant state, when they can be corrected with ease; but a few days growth gives them gigantic strength: and Disorder, with all her attendant evils, are introduced. Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter. The greater part of the following receipts have been written from memory, where they were impressed by long continued - practice. Should they prove serviceable to the young inexperienced housekeeper, it will add greatly to that gratification | which an extensive circulation of the work will be likely to confer. M. RANDOLP yy i
Washington, January, 1828,
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