THE UNIVERSAL RECEIPT BOOK; Being a Compendious Repository of Practical Information in Cookery, Preserving, Pickling, Distilling, and all the Branches of Domestic Economy, to which is added some Advice for Farmers
Philadelphia: Isaac Riley, 1818. Second Edition. Hardcover. 378 pages. 17 x 11 cm. This comprehensive household manual displays the enormous breadth of knowledge that was needed to run a home and farm in the early 1800s. The "domestic" labor that was required included cooking, distilling liquor, cleaning, making and maintaining..... More