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The Ladies Indispensable Companion and Housekeeper's Guide; Embracing Rules of Etiquette; Rules for the Formation of Good Habits; and a Great Variety of Medical Recipes. To Which Is Added One of the Best Systems of Cookery Ever Published. The Majority of the Recipes Are New and Ought to be Possessed by Every One.
New York: H. Dayton, 1860. Hardcover. 136 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Truly an indispensable companion, this guide has tips and tricks to work through everything from nosebleeds to scarlet fever, applesauce to roast lobsters, making clothing dye to pickling cucumbers. As well as diagnoses, remedies, and recipes - guides to common herbs and botanical remedies of the time. An interesting look into another time where home remedies were still very common but becoming less so. [LOWENSTEIN 819]. Interior foxed. Boards rubbed and soiled, with 1/2 spine loss. Brown paper covered boards. Fair. Item #3017
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