The modern housewife or ménagère : comprising nearly one thousand receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day, and those for the nursery and sick room; with minute directions for family management in all its branches. Illustrated with engravings, including the modern housewife's unique kitchen, and magic stove / by Alexis Soyer.

  • Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858.
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The modern housewife or ménagère : comprising nearly one thousand receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day, and those for the nursery and sick room; with minute directions for family management in all its branches. Illustrated with engravings, including the modern housewife's unique kitchen, and magic stove / by Alexis Soyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bifrons Villa, St. J—— W—, September 29th, 1849. ELOISE, DEAREST,— PLEASE in your name, and also in mine, return our sincere thanks to our friends, and especially to the fair daughters of Albion, for the flattering recep- tion they have given to our culinary correspondence, or gastronomic journal, with which I beg of you espe- cially to couple that powerful organ, the public press, which in a few days, like the commotion of an earth- quake, has shaken the domesticated nerves of thou- sands of housewives throughout the United Kingdom, “merely to inform them that I, “‘ Mrs. B.,” and you, “Mrs. L.,” humble but domesticated women, have had a friendly correspondence respecting housewifery in all its branches; the echo of which, believe me, Eloise, has done more in a few days, than half a cen- tury could ever have accomplished for us in our happy but obscure sphere; therefore you must not