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LoC No.: 07035681
Title:
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper
Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Note: Reading ease score: 67.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
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Summary: "Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper" by Catharine Esther Beecher is a comprehensive guide on domestic management written in the late 19th century. The text serves as an extensive encyclopedia focusing on women's responsibilities as housekeepers, wives, and mothers, providing practical advice on economical cooking, health, and homemaking. The book includes over five hundred recipes aimed at promoting health and wellness through proper food preparation. The opening of the work outlines Beecher's intentions to offer valuable guidance to American homemakers, emphasizing the integration of health knowledge into daily household tasks. She expresses her desire to equip women with the knowledge to prepare economical yet healthful meals, share tested recipes, and uphold good domestic practices. Beecher shares her own experiences of recovery from ill health through adherence to the "laws of health," establishing a strong foundation for the importance of domestic labor as essential not just for sustaining a household but also for personal well-being and family education. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878
EBook No.: 55734
Published: Oct 12, 2017
Downloads: 170
Language: English
Subject: Cooking
Subject: Home economics
LoCC: Technology: Home economics
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 07035681
Title:
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper
Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Note: Reading ease score: 67.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by Larry B. Harrison, les Galloway and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)
Summary: "Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper" by Catharine Esther Beecher is a comprehensive guide on domestic management written in the late 19th century. The text serves as an extensive encyclopedia focusing on women's responsibilities as housekeepers, wives, and mothers, providing practical advice on economical cooking, health, and homemaking. The book includes over five hundred recipes aimed at promoting health and wellness through proper food preparation. The opening of the work outlines Beecher's intentions to offer valuable guidance to American homemakers, emphasizing the integration of health knowledge into daily household tasks. She expresses her desire to equip women with the knowledge to prepare economical yet healthful meals, share tested recipes, and uphold good domestic practices. Beecher shares her own experiences of recovery from ill health through adherence to the "laws of health," establishing a strong foundation for the importance of domestic labor as essential not just for sustaining a household but also for personal well-being and family education. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878
EBook No.: 55734
Published: Oct 12, 2017
Downloads: 170
Language: English
Subject: Cooking
Subject: Home economics
LoCC: Technology: Home economics
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.