Buckeye Cookery & Practical Housekeeping
Facsimile of 1877 Cookbook

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Auction is for a hardcover cookbook with dust jacket ~ Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping ~ 464 pages. A 1971 facsimile copy of the original 1877 cookbook. The first 300 pages are devoted to recipes, "all tried and true in the kitchens of the day". With another 122 pages devoted to Practical Housekeeping, this book not only advises the housewife on how to prepare a great variety of dishes, but also how to decorate her home, care for her children, minister to the ill, and entertain graciously. Nice alphabetical index at the end of the cookbook. Here are a few of the interesting recipes and subjects included:

Recipes
Cucumber Catsup, Prune Whip, Whortleberry Pudding, Moonshine (a dessert), Flannel-Cakes, Veal with Oysters, Rumbled Eggs, Green Pease (peas?), Fried Gumbo, and lots more...

Housekeeping
The parlor, the sitting room, the bedroom, the guest room, how to drive off fleas, how to clean hearths, how to put away clothes, how to soften hard water

Hints about Marketing
How to buy meats, fish, poultry, and wild game. How to carve, cut, and cure meat

Hints on Laundrying
How to make starch, how to take out a scorch, how to remove grease stains and ink stains and berry stains

Hints for the Well
Never enter a room where a sick person is on an empty stomache, Children should never be dressed in light clothes, Avoid severe bodily or mental labor just before and two hours after a full meal

Hints for the Sick Room
The sick can rarely take solid food before 11am, Celery is good for some diseases of the kidneys, Raw-beef tea is good for severe cases of typhoid

The arts of the Toilet
For freckles wash with grated horseradish mixed with buttermilk, Too tight collars and neckerchiefs are apt to produce permanent swelling of the throat

Accidents and Sudden Sickness
A felt hat or silk hat held so as to keep the crown full of air makes a good life preserver, For dog bites burn out the wound with a red hot iron

Medical
For colic give cat-nip tea, Cure for wounds from rusty nails (dip fat in turpentine and apply to wound), A pad of wool or horsehair bound over the stomache will prevent sea-sickness

Miscellaneous
To catch wild geese and ducks alive soak wheat in strong alcohol and scatter where they eat and take them while they are drunk, Oil paint lasts longer when put on in Autumn, prevent squeaking boots by driving a peg into the middle of the sole

Condition as shown, edge wear with a few tiny edge tears to dust jacket, original price on back of dust jacket, book itself has light edge/corner wear and very light soiling to edges, pages are clean, binding is secure, very good vintage condition.
 (sku: CB08030205)

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