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and is dedicated, “My fellow-housekeepers—North, East, South and West”—for their substantial endorsement of the work I have done in their behalf. A collection of the private letters I have received from those who have used the “General Receipts” would make a volume very nearly as large as this. If I have, as the writers of these testimonials assure me—“done them good,”—they have done me more in letting me know that I have not spent my strength for naught. I acknowledge with pleasure sundry pertinent suggestions and inquiries which have led me, in this revision, to examine warily the phraseology of some receipts and to modify these, I believe, for the better. But, by far, the best “good” done me through this work has been the conscious sisterhood into which I have come with the great body of American housewives. This is a benefit not to be rated by dollars and cents, or measured by time. I hope my fellow-workers will find their old kitchen-companion, in fresh dress, yet more serviceable than before, and that their daughters may, at the close of a second decade, demand new stereotype plates for still another, and, like this, a progressive edition.
Marion Harland.
October 1, 1880.
INDEX OF GENERAL SUBJECTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Blanc-mange | 414 |
| Bread | 256 |
| Brandied fruits | 463 |
| Butter | 251 |
| Cakes | 299 |
| Candy | 468 |
| Canned fruits | 463 |
| —— vegetables | 463 |
| Catsups | 179 |
| Clean, to, etc. | 511 |
| Company | 140 |
| Corn bread | 283 |
| Creams | 432 |
| Custards | 432 |
| Drinks | 480 |
| Eggs | 239 |
| Familiar talk | 1 |
| Fish | 38 |
| Fritters | 403 |
| Fruit, ripe, for dessert | 442 |
| Game | 147 |
| Gingerbread | 330 |
| Ices | 432 |
| Ice-cream | 432 |
| Icing | 301 |
| Jellies | 414 |
| Jellies, fruit | 459 |
| Meats | 84 |
| Milk | 251 |
| Nursery, the | 511 |
| Pancakes | 403 |
| Pickles | 469 |
| Pies | 337 |
| Preserves | 445 |
| Pork | 114 |
| Poultry | 69 |
| Puddings | 371 |
| Salads | 187 |
| Sauces for fish and meat | 170 |
| —— for puddings | 408 |
| Servants |
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