The American Frugal Housewife : dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy / by Mrs. Child, author of "Hobomok," "The Mother's Book," Editor of the "Juvenile Miscellany," &c.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

Contributor:

• Old Sturbridge Village.
• Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Frugal housewife

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Home economics.
• Cooking, American.
• home economics.

Penn Provenance:

• Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], 130, [8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

Twelfth Edition / enlarged and corrected by the author

Distribution:

Chester, CT : Distributed by The Globe Pequot Press,

Other Title:

Frugal housewife

Place of Publication:

Bedford, Mass. : Applewood Books, 1986.

Contents:

• Introductory Chapter
• Odd Scraps for the Economical
• Soap
• Simple Remedies
• Vegetables
• Herbs
• Cheap Dye-Stuffs
• Meat Corned, or Salted, Hams, &c.
• Choice of Meat
• Common Cooking
• Puddings
• Cheap Custards
• Common Pies
• Common Cakes
• Bread, Yeast, &c.
• Preserves, &c.
• General Maxims for Health
• Hints to Persons of Moderate Fortune. Furniture; Education of Daughters; Travelling and Public Amusements; Philosophy and Consistency; Reasons for Hard Times; How to Endure Poverty.

Notes:

• "Published in Cooperation with Old Sturbridge Village."
• "A George Dawson Book."
• Reprint. Originally published: Twelfth Edition. Boston : Carter, Hendee, and Co., 1832.
• Date on cover: 1833.
• "It has become necessary to change the title of the work to the 'American Frugal Housewife,' because there is an English work of the same name, not adapted to the wants of this country." -- Title-page verso.
• Includes index.

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: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880. Frugal housewife. American frugal housewife.

ISBN:

• 0918222982 (cloth) :
• 9780918222985

OCLC:

926782543