The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook by Mary Randolph
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| Author | Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828 |
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| Title | The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook |
| Note | Reading ease score: 65.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by David Starner, Kevin Handy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Summary | "The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook" by Mary Randolph is a comprehensive cookbook and household management guidewritten in the early 19th century. The book emphasizes the importance of methodical management in cooking and housekeeping, providing practical advice and recipes aimed at helping the inexperienced housekeeper navigate domestic responsibilities with ease and economy. At the start of the book, Randolph shares her personal challenges as a new housekeeper and the motivation behind compiling clear and systematic cooking methods. She stresses the significance of early rising and maintaining order within household tasks to prevent chaos. The preface serves as a foundation for the recipes to follow, offering insights into the structure of daily meals and household management, and hints at the variety of dishes that expect the reader, ranging from soups to meats, sauces, and desserts that will be elaborated on throughout the volume. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | TX: Technology: Home economics |
| Subject | Cooking, American |
| Subject | Cooking -- Virginia |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 12519 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 15, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 343 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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