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Title: The Virginia Housewife
Author: Mary Randolph
Release Date: June 4, 2004 [eBook #12519]
Language: English
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THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE
Or, Methodical Cook
By
MRS. MARY RANDOLPH
1860



Method Is the Soul of Management


PREFACE
The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a
housekeeping 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 labour, but to be also economical: for, when the
ingredients employed were given in just proportions, the article made
was always equally good.
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