Household Discoveries an Encyclopedia of Practical Recipes and Processes & Mrs. Curtis's Cookbooka Manual in the Art of Everyday Cookery
Published by E-034
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Last Exit Books
AbeBooks seller since December 6, 2005
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 155.39
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Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Success Company, Petersburg, NY, 1914. Two Books In One Volume. 744, 280 pgs. Illustrated with color plates. Bound in decorated cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This happy two-in-one volume combines the full text and illustrations of HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES by Sidney Morse and MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK by Isabel Gordon Curtis. These two books bring together literally thousands of cooking recipes and household receipts. A single source for all your vintage cookery, family and housekeeping needs. The author of MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK promises: This book is designed for the use of the home cook, who is interested in the best way to do her work, and who strives to set an attractive table as well to practice economy. Although this compilation contains a number of recipes for what are termed "fancy dishes," the greater part of its teaching deals with the plain food, which is served three times a day on the table of an everyday American family. It teaches every detail about how to make good bread, how to cook vegetables, fish, meat, eggs, cereals, and other wholesome foods in the most tempting way possible. It also teaches how to utilize all sorts of left-overs - daintily and economically. MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK contains MORE THAN 1,000 individual recipes. Not only that, it's illustrated with a series of attractive color plates. On the domestic side, HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES covers the full range of potential challenges, problems and requirements associated with running a household at the turn of the century - furnishing a home, heating/lighting/refrigeration, housekeeping, laundry, house-cleaning, soap-making, toilet and bath, and more. Countless gems of instruction, advice and household hints were contributed to this book by actual home-makers. (In fact, at the front of the book is an offer from the publishers to pay "one cent a word" for "new household discoveries, including all practical recipes and processes, not contained in this volume, one cent a word for all we can use in future editions of HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES." ) Author Sidney Morse notes: More than twenty-five thousand persons contributed from one to half a dozen of their own tried household "discoveries" to this book. All were practical housekeepers. Their ideas were the direct product of their experience. They were proud of them and they had reason to be. The writer appreciated to the full value of this material and obtained permission to edit it and prepare it for publication. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…
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- Title
- Household Discoveries an Encyclopedia of Practical Recipes and Processes & Mrs. Curtis's Cookbooka Manual in the Art of Everyday Cookery
- Author
- Sidney Morse; Isabel Gordon Curtis
- Publisher
- E-034
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
Last Exit Books
Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since December 6, 2005
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