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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Miss Beecher'S Domestic Receipt-Book: Designed As A Supplement To Her Treatise On Domestic Economy

Miss Beecher'S Domestic Receipt-Book: Designed As A Supplement To Her Treatise On Domestic Economy

Esther Beecher, Catharine

Paperback

Food WritingGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9354504523
ISBN13: 9789354504525
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before lifestyle blogs, there was Beecher. A brisk, ingenious guide to feeding and running a home when time, fuel, and money mattered. Order begins at the hearth. Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book is a domestic receipt book and nineteenth-century cookbook designed to accompany Catharine Esther Beecher's influential domestic economy instruction. Part recipe treasury, part household management manual, it gathers American home cooking alongside practical housekeeping tips for planning meals, using ingredients well, and keeping a household steady. Expect plain guidance on economy and comfort: how to think ahead, make do, and serve well. It is as much about habits as dishes, a window onto the working rhythms of kitchens, storerooms, and family tables. Read for inspiration, research, or simple pleasure. For collectors, the period voice and utility give it lasting charm too. Published in the antebellum United States, this volume captures Victorian era domesticity as it was taught, debated, and lived, and it stands in fascinating conversation with Mrs Beeton household management and other Victorian cookbook classics. Beecher's work helped shape ideas of home, labour, and competence, making this a classic household reference for historians, collectors, and readers who simply enjoy the texture of older domestic life. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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