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been made up without sparing time, labor, or expense, from the choicest bits of
the best experience of hundreds who have long traveled the daily round of
household duties, not reluctantly like drudges, but lovingly, with heart and
hand fully enlisted in the work. Those housewives, especially, whose purses are
not over-plethoric, will, it is believed, find its pages full of timely and
helpful suggestions in their efforts to make the balance of the household ledger
appear on the right side, without lessening the excellence of the table or
robbing home of any comfort or attraction.
The arrangement of subjects treated, whenever practicable, has been made in the
simple order of the alphabet, and for the sake of still more ready reference a
very full alphabetical index has been added. The instructions which precede the
recipes of each department, have been carefully made up, and are entirely
trustworthy, and the recipes themselves are new to print, and well indorsed.
Several suggestive articles have also been introduced, which, though not
belonging strictly to cookery, bear such close relations to it that the fitness
of their appearance in the connection is evident.
There has been no attempt at display or effect, the only purpose being to
express ideas as clearly and concisely as possible, and to make a thoroughly
simple and practical work. In the effort to avoid the mistakes of others,
greater errors may have been committed; but the book is submitted just as it is
to the generous judgement of those who consult it, with the hope that it may
lessen their perplexities; and stimulate that just pride without which work is
drudgery and great excellence impossible.
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