The American Frugal Housewife
by Lydia Maria Child
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Contents
- Introductory Chapter
- Odd Scraps for the Economical
- Soap
- Simple Remedies
- Vegetables
- Herbs
- Cheap Dye-Stuffs
- Meat Corned, or Salted, Hams, &c
- Choice of Meat
- Common Cooking
- Puddings
- Cheap Custards
- Common Pies
- Bread, Yeast, &c
- Preserves, &c
- General Maxims for Health
- Hints to Persons of Moderate Fortune
- Philosophy and Consistency
- Reasons for Hard Times
- How to Endure Poverty
- American Frugal Housewife
- Carving
- Appendix