The complete economical cook, and frugal housewife : an entirely new system of domestic cookery, containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving, and cooking, also, trussing & carving; preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With directions for pastry and confectionary, likewise the art of making British wines, brewing, baking, etc. / by Mrs. Mary Holland.

  • Holland, Mary.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The complete economical cook, and frugal housewife : an entirely new system of domestic cookery, containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving, and cooking, also, trussing & carving; preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With directions for pastry and confectionary, likewise the art of making British wines, brewing, baking, etc. / by Mrs. Mary Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X 1V The immediate plan of every family must be adapted to its own peculiar situation, and can only result from the good sense and early good habits of the parties, acting upon general ra- tional principles. What one family is to do, must never be measured by what another family does. Each one knows its own resources, and should con- sult them alone. What might be meanness in one, might be extravagance in another; and therefore there can be no standard of reference but that of individual prudence. The most fatal of all things to private families, is to in- dulge an ambition to make an appearance above their fortunes, professions, or business, what- ever these may be. The next point, both for comfort and re- spectability, is, that all the household economy should be uniform, not displaying a parade of show in one thing, and a total want of comfort in another. Besides the contemptible ap- pearance that this must have to every p'erson of good sense, it is productive of consequences, not only of present, but future injury to a family, that are too often irreparable. To keep rooms for show, where the fortune is equal to having a house that will accommo- date the family properly, and admit of this also, belongs to the higher sphere of life; but in pri- vate families, to shut up the only room perhaps in the house which is really wholesome for the family to live in, is a kind of lingering murder; and yet how frequently this consideration es- capes persons who mean well by their family, but have a grate, a carpet, and chairs, too fine