Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book Life as a colonial woman

Life as a colonial woman was difficult

and children wore in the 1940s than the Sears catalogs of those years

While most of us would have little difficulty in recognizing a buckle

The text of this Dover edition has been faithfully reproduced from an edition of Vesalius published by World Publishing Company in 1950

Eighty-eight years later

Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book Life as a colonial woman1846 gem gives recipes for rice griddle cakes, royal crumpets, sassafras jelly, pickled nasturtiums, codfish relish, mutton hash, mock turtle soup, much more. Readers also learn how to cut up a hog, make "crayons" for blackboards, prepare tables for dinner parties. New Introduction by cookbook authority Jan Longone. 40 black and white figures. Reprint of the Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1858 edition.