The modern housewife, or, Ménagère :
comprising nearly one thousand receipts, for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day : with those of the nursery and sick room, and minute directions for family management in all its branches : illustrated with engravings /
by Alexis Soyer ; edited by an American housekeeper.

Description

Main Author

Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858.

Related Names

American housekeeper.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : D. Appleton, 1851.

Subjects

Binding (Embossed leather)
Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive.
Low budget cooking.
Dinners and dining.
Menus.
Entertaining.
Carving (Meat, etc.)
Desserts.
Sauces.
Baking.
Cooking for the sick.
Cooking.
Embossed bindings (Binding)

Note

Includes sections on: comforts for invalids, removes, entrees, dishes with the remains of lamb, garniture for omlettes, beverages for evening parties.
Publisher's advertisements on p.12-13 (4th group), [1] (at end).
"Opionions of the press": p. 1-2 (1st group).
Cf. Lowenstein, E. Amer. cookery (3rd ed.), 491.
Includes index.
"Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year1849, by D. Appleton & Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York"--T.p. verso.

Physical Description

2, vi, 364, 13-23, [1] p. ; 19 cm

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