Simmons, Amelia / 2008-06-07 00:00:00
EBOOK AMERICAN COOKERY ***
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AMERICAN COOKERY,
OR THE ART OF DRESSING
VIANDS, FISH, POULTRY and VEGETABLES,
AND THE BEST MODES OF MAKING
PASTES, PUFFS, PIES, TARTS, PUDDINGS,
CUSTARDS AND PRESERVES,
AND ALL KINDS OF CAKES,
FROM THE IMPERIAL PLUMB TO PLAIN CAKE.
ADAPTED TO THIS COUNTRY,
AND ALL GRADES OF LIFE.
By Amelia Simmons,
AN AMERICAN ORPHAN.
PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS.
_HARTFORD_
PRINTED BY HUDSON & GOODWIN,
FOR THE AUTHOR.
1796
PREFACE.
As this treatise is calculated for the improvement of the rising
generation of _Females_ in America, the Lady of fashion and fortune
will not be displeased, if many hints are suggested for the more
general and universal knowledge of those females in this country, who
by the loss of their parents, or other unfortunate circumstances, are
reduced to the necessity of going into families in the line of
domestics, or taking refuge with their friends or relations, and doing
those things which are really essential to the perfecting them as good
wives, and useful members of society.
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