Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Author: Elizabeth E. Lea Release date: October 1, 2005 [eBook #9101] Most recently updated: January 2, 2021 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9101 Credits: Produced by Steve Schulze and Distributed Proofreaders *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOMESTIC COOKERY, USEFUL RECEIPTS, AND HINTS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS *** Produced by Steve Schulze and Distributed Proofreaders DOMESTIC COOKERY, USEFUL RECEIPTS, AND HINTS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. BY ELIZABETH E. LEA "The Source of Liberal Deeds is Wise Economy." ADVERTISEMENT TO THIRD EDITION. This Work having passed through two editions, and having met with a very favorable reception, the Authoress has been induced to thoroughly revise and re-arrange the whole work. Numerous additions have also been made, particularly under the heads Miscellaneous Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers, which she hopes will be found to have enhanced its value. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. The compiler of "Useful Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers" having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen, those connected with the ordinary, but far more useful part of household duties, were not easily procured; thus situated, she applied to persons of experience, and embodied the information collected in a book, to which, since years have matured her judgment, she has added much that is the result of her own experiments. Familiar, then, with the difficulties a young housekeeper encounters, when she finds herself