Project Gutenberg 2004-06-01 Public domain in the USA. 280 Randolph, Mary 1762 1828 Mann, Molly Randolph, Molly Mann, Mary The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook Reading ease score: 65.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. E-text prepared by David Starner, Kevin Handy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "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.) en Cooking, American Cooking -- Virginia TX Text Cookbooks and Cooking Browsing: Cooking & Drinking Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society 326381 325918 2024-10-06T03:35:22.304214 2023-10-06T05:46:12.457541 text/html text/html 319718 2020-12-15T00:45:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 98790 2020-12-15T00:45:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 210839 2024-10-06T03:35:34.194324 application/epub+zip 207215 2024-10-06T03:35:27.014245 application/epub+zip 172998 2024-10-06T03:35:25.190216 application/epub+zip 588753 2024-10-06T03:35:40.728114 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 431341 2024-10-06T03:35:32.460149 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396825 2022-09-06T21:11:31.577200 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290961 290869 2024-10-06T03:35:21.071196 2023-10-06T05:46:11.423511 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 292083 2020-12-15T00:45:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 89585 2020-12-15T00:45:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19717 2024-10-06T03:35:40.865102 application/rdf+xml 18448 2024-10-06T03:35:25.768172 image/jpeg 3962 2024-10-06T03:35:25.479184 image/jpeg 188506 2024-10-06T03:35:22.328224 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia