The house servant's directory, or, A monitor for private families : comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards in first order, the art of waiting in all its branches and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order, general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, full instructions for cleaning plate, brass, steel, glass, mahogany, all kinds of patent and common lamps, observations on servants' behaviour to their employers and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts, chiefly compiled for the use of house servants and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States : with friendly advice to cooks and heads of families, and complete directions how to burn Lehigh coal, 1828 / by Robert Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housekeeping.

Household employees--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Household employees.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

1828 /

Boston : Munroe and Francis, 1828.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

UC San Diego's AIWF Collection includes more than 7,200 volumes, beginning with descriptions of European cuisine and culinary history from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, and more recently focusing on Asia, Mexico and Latin America, California and the American West and the nations of the Pacific Rim. In addition to culinary history, the collection supports research and instruction in cultural studies, social history, women's studies, anthropology, nutrition and medicine.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference: TX 331.R64 1828.

"Collection: American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection."--Home page.

"Note: Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of California, San Diego."--Home page.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2019).

OCLC:

1141412261

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.