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PREFACE.
The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a
housekeeping life, from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise to
impart knowledge to a Tyro, compelled me to study the subject, and by actual
experiment to reduce every thing in the culinary line, to proper weights and
measures. This method I found not only to diminish the necessary attention and
labour, but to be also economical: for, when the ingredients employed were given
in just proportions, the article made was always equally good. The government of
a family, bears a Lilliputian resemblance to the government of a nation. The
contents of the Treasury must be known, and great care taken to keep the
expenditures from being equal to the receipts. A regular system must be
introduced into each department, which may be modified until matured, and should
then pass into an inviolable law. The grand arcanum of management lies in three
simple rules:- "Let every thing be done at a proper time, keep every thing to
its proper use." If the mistress of a family, will every morning examine
minutely the different departments of her house-,
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