Book Description

Excerpt from Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant This little book is the result of twenty years' experience, on the part of the author, in housekeeping. The receipts which it contains were, in great part, originally written down for her own convenience; others from time to time have been added, with the hope that they might be of service to her daughters. She has been led to suppose that they might be made useful to others, also; and for this reason, with the advice and encouragement of those on whom she ought to rely, they are now published. Without comparing this book with any other works of a similar character, it is thought that it proposes the three following characteristics: 1. It contains no receipt which the author has not herself tried and proved, experimentally, to be good. 2. It contains a sufficient number of receipts to meet all the ordinary wants of a family. 3. A third object kept constantly in view has been to provide receipts, which will enable one to furnish a table handsomely, at the smallest expense. Great attention has been given to the last point. Few persons are aware what a difference the mode of cooking makes in the cost of a year's housekeeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.