The Household (of the Detroit Free Press). A cyclopaedia of practical hints for modern homes containing new ideas upon aquariums, ferneries, birds, cabinets, chilldren's amusements, fancy work, plants and flowers, home decoration, house furnishing, housekeeping, health, knitting and crochet, painting, music, useful and ornamental needlework, laundry, toilet, and hundreds of minor home subjects, with a full and complete treatise on cookery, edited by by May Perrin Goff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goff, May Perrin, editor.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home economics--Dictionaries.

Home economics.

Cooking.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xii, 644 pages 23 cm

Edition:

Third Edition

Other Title:

Cyclopedia of practical hints for modern homes

Place of Publication:

Detroit, The Detroit Free Press Co. [1881]

Contents:

Part I. Æolian Harps; Aquariums; Baskets; Birds; Boxes; Bouquets; Cabinets; Casts; Chairs; Children; Coral; Cork Work; Crosses for Cabinets; Crystallizations; The Dairy; Dining Room; Dish Washing; Dusters; Easter Eggs; Embroidery Stitches and Designs; Entertainments; Etching; Fancy Work; Ferns; Fish Scale Flowers; Flowers; Games; Glass; Grasses; Holiday Festivities; House Furnishing; House Keeping; House Cleaning; Husk Mats, Beds and Pillows; Knitting, Crochet and Lace; The Laundry; Medical and Health; Antidotes for Poisoning; Food for the sick; Musical Chimes; Ostrich Feathers; Oyster Cans; Painting; Paper Landscapes; Perfumery; Pictures; Plaster Casts; Pressed Autumn Leaves; Pressed Flowers; Preserving Flowers and Fruit; Plant Specimens; Rockeries and Grottoes; Rose Jars and Pillows; Home-Made Rugs and Carpets; Rustic Work; Scrap Books; Sea Weed Specimens; Shells; Sheeting Wax; Skeletonized Leaves; Spatter Work; Summer Hints; The Toilet; Taxidermy; Woods

Part II. Bills of Fare; Allowance of Supplies for Entertainments; Bread Making; Breakfast and Tea Dishes; Cake Making; Catsups and Sauces; Confectionery; Creams and Custards; Drinks; Extracts and Syrups; Fish; Fruits; Canned Fruit and Vegetables; Dried and Candied Fruits; Spiced Fruits; Game; Ices and Ice Creams; Jams and Jellies; Meats; Meat and Fish Pies; Pastry; Puddings; Pudding Sauces; Pickles; Poultry; Preserves and Marmalades; Salads; Sandwiches; Shell Fish; Soups; Vegetables; Cook's Time Table; Table of Weights and Measures; Utensils.

Notes:

Green cloth covered boards with gold and black decorated spine and front cover.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Other Format:

Online version: Goff, May Perrin. Household (of the Detroit free press).

OCLC:

4829714