Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts

From the London and Country Cookbook, 1770. Courtesy of the Bryson Library.
BY HELEN KINNE PROFESSOR OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS EDUCATION AND ANNA M. COOLEY, B.S. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS EDUCATION TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1914. Reprinted February, June, August, October, 1914; February, June, October, 1915; April, August, 1916; May, 1917; January, 1918. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
This volume, like its companion, Shelter and Clothing , is intended for use in the course in household arts in the high school and normal school, whether the work be vocational or general in its aim. It is hoped that both volumes will prove useful in the home as well, including as they do a treatment of the homecrafts, and the related topics now so significant to the home maker,—the cost and purchasing of foods and clothing, the cost of operating, the management of the home, and questions of state and city sanitation vital to the health of the individual family.
The volume treats specifically of foods, their production, sanitation, cost, nutritive value, preparation, and serving, these topics being closely interwoven with the practical aspects of household management, and they are followed by a study of the household budget and accounts, methods of buying, housewifery, and laundering. It includes about 160 carefully selected and tested recipes, together with a large number of cooking exercises of a more experimental nature designed to develop initiative and resourcefulness. Shelter and Clothing deals with the organization and ideals of the home, house sanitation, decoration, and furnishing; and treats in full, textiles, sewing, costume design, and dressmaking.
Some of the recipes here given are adapted from those of such authorities as Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Farmer, and Miss Barrows, and others are original and from private sources.