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THE
POCUMTUC HOUSEWIFE;
A GUIDE TO
DOMESTIC COOKERY,
AS IT IS PRACTICED IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY.
To which are added plain directions for soap-making,
brewing, candle dippings clezr starching, caring for the sick
and all duties of a careful housewife.
Especially adapted to the use of young wives zvho come
from outside places and are not conversant with the ways of
the Valley, and of female orphans who have not had a
mother's training.
B\^ SEVER-\L LADIF.S..
DE'Ek'PmLi)
First Edition iSo^,
Reprint with additions iSg^.
PUBLISHED BY
WILLARD LEND A HAND SOCIETY,
DEERFIELD, MASS.
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dontents.
Note to Edition of 1897 4
Advertisement to first edition 5
What to Eat 6
Baking Day 8
Bread 10
Boiled Dinner 14
Roasts 18
Pickling Meats 21
Pies 22
Puddings 26
Cake 29
Custards and Syllabubs 34
Pickles and Preserves 37
The Physical Director 40
Miscellany 45
mote to tbe lEMtion of 1897*
TO THE READER.
IN the universal hunt for things ancestral, one essential part
of the old life has been neglected. Why should empty
platters and plates be cherished as something sacred, and the
contents for which alone they existed be forgotten? Surely, a
dish of pudding had a closer connection with a grandfather,
than a dish of Canton china. In a sense the pudding was itself
an ancestor. The blood it fed still flows in living veins. Then
let it be honored and its history told !
Does anyone doubt the comparative merit of willow ware
cookery and that of the present day? Ask any man or woman
of years sufficient to remember the brick oven and the roasting
spit, and doubt no longer. Stove cooked food merely sustains
life. Some housewives are unfortunately placed in ready made
houses without ovens or wide fireplaces. These cannot hope
to excel. By carefully following as far as may be the rules
found in this little book, they may gain some faint idea of the
homemade ambrosia on which the men of old were fed.
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FORM NO. 609: >.4.}6i 2S04t.
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The Pocumtuc Housewife
A Guide to Domestic Cookery
/f Choice Conserve v r;
r* /* ^ ,
HE Fruit of Experience fresh-, ly gathered from Elderly Lips, now preserved in print
THE POCUMTUC HOUSEWIFE;
A GUIDE TO
DOMESTIC COOKERY,
AS IT IS PRACTICED IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY.
To which are added plain directions for soap-making, brewing, candle dippings clezr starching, caring for the sick and all duties of a careful housewife.
Especially adapted to the use of young wives zvho come from outside places and are not conversant with the ways of the Valley, and of female orphans who have not had a mother's training.
By SEVERAL LADIES
DEERFIELD
First Edition 1897,
Reprint with additions 1897.
PUBLISHED BY
WILLARD LEND A HAND SOCIETY,
DEERFIELD, MASS.
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•. -•- ••'
• • • •
Contents
Note to Edition of 1897 4
Advertisement to first edition 5
What to Eat 6
Baking Day 8
Bread 10
Boiled Dinner 14
Roasts 18
Pickling Meats 21
Pies 22
Puddings 26
Cake 29
Custards and Syllabubs 34
Pickles and Preserves 37
The Physical Director 40
Miscellany 45
Note to the Edition of 1897
TO THE READER.
IN the universal hunt for things ancestral, one essential part of the old life has been neglected. Why should empty platters and plates be cherished as something sacred, and the contents for which alone they existed be forgotten? Surely, a dish of pudding had a closer connection with a grandfather, than a dish of Canton china. In a sense the pudding was itself an ancestor. The blood it fed still flows in living veins. Then let it be honored and its history told !
Does anyone doubt the comparative merit of willow ware cookery and that of the present day? Ask any man or woman of years sufficient to remember the brick oven and the roasting spit, and doubt no longer. Stove cooked food merely sustains life. Some housewives are unfortunately placed in ready made houses without ovens or wide fireplaces. These cannot hope to excel. By carefully following as far as may be the rules found in this little book, they may gain some faint idea of the homemade ambrosia on which the men of old were fed.
Advertisement to first edition
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