Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. The art of trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. The branches of pastry and confectionary; a complete family physician; instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
[1830?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. The art of trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. The branches of pastry and confectionary; a complete family physician; instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same time to support as neat and elegant an ap- pearance as is consistent with prudent economy ; without which even princely fortunes must fail; in which case, her husband will soon discover her merits, and place a proper value on the treasure he possesses. A person w ho desires to please,, will seldom fail to do so ; this conviction should of itself be suffi- cient to stimulate to the attempt, as domestic know- ledge in a female is of more real importance than vain acquirements, not that accomplishments, when properly directed, are incompatible with domestic duties; on the contrary, they become intimately combined with them, because they add to the ra- tional enjoyments of that home which shoidd ever be the centre of attraction to the husband, to her children, and others connected with it; and this is what an ignorant unsocial, and unaccomplished woman can never render it. It is the abuse of things from which alone mischief can originate, not from the temperate use of them. The domestic arrangements of a family belonging entirely to the female, the table, of course, becomes entitled to no small share of her attention in re- spect to its expenditure, appearance, and general supplies. Taste and judgment are highly requisite in this department, because the credit of keeping a good and respectable table depends not, (as of old,) on the vast quantity of articles with which it is co- vered, but the neatness, propriety, and cleanliness, in which the whole is served up, which alone can confer real credit on her who directs the preparation. Dinner parties are very expensive, and certainly fall very heaVy on persons whose incomes are mo- derate ; such persons, therefore, should not support a custom productive of unpleasant consequences, by