The Still-Room is a comprehensive and practical guide to the domestic arts of preserving, pickling, distilling, and preparing a wide variety of household remedies and delicacies, as practiced in the 18th and 19th centuries. This book serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in traditional home management, offering detailed instructions on making jams, jellies, syrups, cordials, and conserves, as well as recipes for medicinal waters, herbal infusions, and beauty preparations. The...

A Plea for Housewifery Butter and Cream Cheese Pickling Meat Fish Eggs Pickling Vegetables Condiments and Sauces Preserves The Storing of Fruit and Herbs The Bottling of Fruit and Vegetables The Drying of Fruit and Vegetables Home-brewed Beer Cider Wine-making The Distilling of Waters and Cordials Some other Cordials and Bitters Drinks—Old and New Hints for Refreshments at a Garden-party or Picnic Ice Creams Food for Invalids Perfumes Some Miscellaneous Recipes

It's time to take back the kitchen. It's time to unlock the pantry and break free from the shackles of ready-made, industrial food. It's time to cook supper.The Lost Art of Real Cooking heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food-laborious and inconvenient, yet extraordinarily rewarding and worth bragging about. From jam, yogurt, and fresh pasta to salami, smoked meat, and strudel, Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger arm you with the knowledge and skills that...

must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. Men are now so ...

This vintage book contains a collection of recipes and articles related to making alcoholic drinks at home, including instructions for producing beer, cider, wine, and a variety of liqueurs. Full of useful information and simple, step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for the novice brewer and those with an interest in producing alcohol at home as a hobby. Although old, the information contained within this volume is timeless and will be of considerable utility to modern brewers. ...

This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to preserving fish and meat, with information on tinning, canning, salting, and smoking, along with a selection of interesting recipes and articles. Written in clear, plain language and profusely illustrated, this book will be of considerable utility to the modern reader, as well as a great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Beef Salted and Smoked'; 'Pork'; 'Salted Basket of Beef'; 'Salted Ox T...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to preserving fish and meat, with information on pickling, curing, smoking, and other related aspects. A detailed and accessible handbook, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in economical cooking, and would make for a fantastic addition to culinary collections. Contents include: “Bloaters”, “Dutch Salmon”, “Dutch Herrings”, “Smoked Sprats”, “Smoked Mackerel”, “Dried Whitebait”, “Kippered Haddocks”, “Smoked Eels”, “Sprats as Anchovi...

My object in writing this little book is to show you how you may prepare and cook your daily food, so as to obtain from it the greatest amount of nourishment at the least possible expense; and thus, by skill and economy, add, at the same time, to your comfort and to your comparatively slender means. The Recipes which it contains will afford sufficient variety, from the simple every-day fare to more tasty dishes for the birthday, Christmas-day, or other festive occasions.

Hundreds of useful recipes: soups, meats, fish, cakes and many more, all written with economy and self-sufficiency in mind.

Published in 1830 in North America, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection stresses American cooking over European cuisine.Within a year of its publication in the United States, The Cook Not Mad was also published in Canada and thus became Canada's first printed cookbook. In contrast to some of the larger encyclopedic cookbook collections of the day, The Cook Not Mad provides 310 recipes and household information designed to be...

Firmly of the belief that a home should be run as an efficient military campaign, Mrs Beeton, the doyenne of English cookery, offers timeless tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, as well as giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe.With such delicious English classics as rabbit pie, carrot soup, baked apple custard, and fresh lemonade - as well as invalid's jelly for those days when stewed eels may be a little too much - t...

This eighteenth century kitchen reference is the first cookbook published in the U.S. with recipes using local ingredients for American cooks.Named by the Library of Congress as one of the eighty-eight "Books That Shaped America," American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United States. Until its publication, cookbooks used by American colonists were British. As author Amelia Simmons states, the recipes here were "adapte...