Good things made, said, & done, for every home & household.

Date:: 1893

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Good things made, said, & done, for every home & household. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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WINDOWS OPENED MORE WOULD KEEP DOCTORS FROM THE DOOR. APPENDIX; AND BILLS OF FARE FOR FOURTEEN TASTY DINNERS. N the foregoing pages, the female head of a family, who wishes to keep a good table according to her circumstances, cannot fail to find a large number of valuable recipes as to what to cook and how to cook it. But to still further assist the! mistress of a household to solve the important query “What shall we have for dinner? we compile from the recipes herein contained a list of dishes at once cheap and tasty, suitable for every day of the week, and varied | in such a manner as to avoid that sameness which usually characterises the chief meal of the artizan classes. The object aimed at is to combine comfort with economy, and to show how a good and varied fare may be provided at small cost. It would be a poor economy to sacrifice comfort at the shrine of expense; and therefore, in the following selections, we have purposely avoided reference to modes of cookery of a costly character :— A SCRAPER AT THE DOOR KEEPS DIRT FROM THE FLOOR.