ent of a store-closet.
On providing a proper supply of utensils to be used in cooking, with
drawings to illustrate.
On the proper construction of ovens, and directions for heating and
managing them.
Directions for securing good yeast and good bread.
Advice in regard to marketing, the purchase of wood, &c.
Receipts for breakfast dishes, biscuits, warm cakes, tea cakes, &c.
Receipts for puddings, cakes, pies, preserves, pickles, sauces, catsups,
and also for cooking all the various kinds of meats, soups, and
vegetables.
The above receipts are arranged so that the more healthful and simple
ones are put in one portion, and the richer ones in another.
Healthful and favourite articles of food for young children.
Receipts for a variety of temperance drinks.
Directions for making tea, coffee, chocolate, and other warm drinks.
Directions for cutting up meats, and for salting down, corning, curing,
and smoking.
Directions for making butter and cheese, as furnished by a practical and
scientific manufacturer of the same, of Goshen, Conn., that land of rich
butter and cheese.
A guide to a selection of a regular course of family dishes, which will
embrace _a successive variety_, and unite convenience with good taste
and comfortable living.
Receipts for articles for the sick, and drawings of conveniences for
their comfort and relief.
Receipts for articles for evening parties and dinner parties, with
drawings to show the proper manner of setting tables, and of supplying
and arranging dishes, both on these, and on ordinary occasions.
An outline of arrangements for a family in moderate circumstances,
embracing the systematic details of work for each domestic, and the
proper mode of doing it, as furnished by an accomplished housekeeper.
Remarks on the different nature of food and drinks, and their relation
to the laws of health.
Suggestions to the domestics of a family, designed to promote a proper
appreciation of the dignity and importance of their station, and a
cheerful and faithful performance of their duties.
Miscellaneous suggestions and receipts.
A GLOSSARY
OF SUCH WORDS AND PHRASES AS MAY NOT EASILY BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE YOUNG
READER.
[Many words, not contained in this GLOSSARY, will be found
explained in the body of the Work, in the places where they first occur.
For these, see INDEX.]
_Academy, the Boston_, an association in Boston, established for the
purpose of promo
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