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Nutrition & Food
The American Frugal Housewife
Lydia Maria Child
165 pages~3 hr 17 min read117 chapters$4.99
Lydia Maria Child wrote for those who are not ashamed of economy, and her 1832 handbook made thrift a national virtue. Cheap dishes, household remedies, and unsparing advice on waste, from one of America's most famous women of letters. Twelve editions in her lifetime say readers agreed. Practice frugality with its founding author.
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117 chapters
- 1THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE.
- 2DEDICATED TO
- 3THOSE WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED OF ECONOMY.
- 4AUTHOR OF "HOBOMOK," "THE MOTHER'S BOOK," EDITOR OF THE "JUVENILE MISCELLANY," c.
- 5TWELFTH EDITION.
- 6ENLARGED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR.
- 71832.
- 8TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 9INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
- 10ODD SCRAPS FOR THE ECONOMICAL.
- 11SOAP.
- 12SIMPLE REMEDIES.
- 13GRUEL.
- 14EGG GRUEL.
- 15ARROW-ROOT JELLY.
- 16CALF'S FOOT JELLY.
- 17TAPIOCA JELLY.
- 18SAGO JELLY.
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