CONTENTS.

PART I.
MOTHERLY TALKS WITH YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS.

PAGE
I. System in Work[3]
II. March[7]
III. Spring Labor[11]
IV. Sunshine and Fresh Air[14]
V. House-cleaning[17]
VI. Washing-day[21]
VII. Putting Clothes to soak[25]
VIII. Patient Continuance in Well-doing[28]
IX. Preparing for the Country[32]
X. Heedlessness[35]
XI. Washing Flannels[38]
XII. June Cares[42]
XIII. Pure Air and thorough Ventilation[46]
XIV. Milk and Butter[49]
XV. Making Cheese[53]
XVI. A troublesome Question[57]
XVII. Woman’s Kingdom[63]
XVIII. The Kitchen[66]
XIX. How much is a Wife worth?[70]
XX. Teach little Boys to be useful[74]
XXI. Bleaching, Starching, and removing Stains[78]
XXII. To iron Shirts, Vests, and Embroideries[84]
XXIII. A Talk about Beds[88]
XXIV. Marketing[91]
XXV. Trust your Children[96]
XXVI. Who invented Bread?[100]
XXVII. How about the little Girls?[107]
XXVIII. Stealing Servants[112]
XXIX. Fall Cleaning[117]
XXX. Fashionable Dress[122]
XXXI. Lessons by the Wayside[126]
XXXII. Pauline Pry[130]
XXXIII. Buy your Cage before you catch your Bird[135]
XXXIV. Care in selecting a House[138]
XXXV. Visiting for one’s own Convenience[141]
XXXVI. Will they Board, or keep House?[146]
XXXVII. Choice of Colors in Dress[151]
XXXVIII. Harmonizing Colors in Dress[156]
XXXIX. A Word about Moths[160]
XL. Winter Butter[164]
XLI. Repairs[169]
XLII. Accurate Weights and Measures in Cooking[173]
XLIII. Teaching little Girls to sew[176]
XLIV. The Care of Poultry[180]
XLV. Institutions for the Education of Women[184]
XLVI. Great Mistakes[189]
XLVII. Study to make Home attractive[193]
XLVIII. The Care of Cooking-Stoves and Ranges[198]
XLIX. The Old Ways and the New[202]
L. A few Hints on Carving[206]
LI. Parental Example[209]
LII. True Taste more effective than Money[213]
LIII. Cooking by Steam[217]
LIV. Vegetables[221]
LV. Cabbage[225]
LVI. Pulse[229]
LVII. Pot-herbs and Salads[234]
LVIII. Mistakes in cooking Vegetables[237]
LIX. Divided Family Government[242]
LX. How can we secure good Servants?[247]
LXI. The Guest-Chamber[250]
LXII. The Care of Infants[255]
LXIII. Personal Neatness[261]
LXIV. Are House-Plants injurious to the Health?[266]
LXV. Bad Butter[271]
LXVI. October[277]
LXVII. The Slavery of Fashion[282]
LXVIII. Pickling and Preserving[287]
LXIX. What has become of all the little Girls?[292]
LXX. Procrastination[297]
LXXI. The surest Remedy[302]
LXXII. A few little Things[308]
LXXIII. Planning for the Week[312]
LXXIV. Shopping[316]
LXXV. Dusting[320]
LXXVI. A Chapter on Soups[323]
LXXVI. More about Soups[328]
LXXVIII. Testing Character[333]
LXXIX. If we knew![337]
LXXX. In such an Hour as ye think not[342]
LXXXI. Grumbling[346]
LXXXII. Little Foxes spoiling the beloved Vine[351]
LXXXIII. Waste not—want not[356]
LXXXIV. Making Cake and Pastry[360]
LXXXV. As thy Day so shall thy Strength be[366]
LXXXVI. What we know not now we shall know hereafter[370]
LXXXVII. Until Death do us part[375]

PART II.
CHOICE FAMILY RECEIPTS.

YEAST.
Yeast[385]
Another [385]
Yeast-Cakes[385]
BREAD.
General Rules[386]
Bread without Sponging[386]
Good Bread[386]
Bread with Sponging[387]
To make Bread from Flour that runs[387]
Bread by Scalding the Flour[388]
To make Stale Bread fresh[388]
Graham Bread[388]
Steamed Brown Bread[389]
Corn Bread[389]
Rice Bread[390]
BISCUIT.
Morning Biscuit[390]
Tea Biscuit[390]
Soda Biscuit[391]
Indian-Corn Biscuit[391]
Parker House Rolls[391]
Rusk[392]
Sweet Potato Buns [392]
Potato Pone[392]
Gems[392]
Gems, No. 2[392]
Graham Gems[393]
BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES.
Corn Cakes[393]
Another Way[393]
Another[393]
Another[393]
Steamed Johnny-Cake[394]
Corn-Meal Cake with Apples and Suet[394]
Muffins[394]
Another Way[394]
Cream Muffins[394]
Another Way[394]
Raised Muffins[395]
Hominy Muffins[395]
Quick Muffins[395]
Graham Flour Muffins[395]
Raised Waffles[395]
Corn-Meal Waffles[396]
Buckwheat Cakes[396]
Rice Griddle-Cakes[396]
Sour-Milk Griddle-Cakes[396]
Green-Corn Fritters[396]
Mock Oyster Fritters[397]
Corn Oysters[397]
Rice Cakes[397]
Rice or Hominy Cakes[397]
Rosie’s Sally Lunn[397]
Strawberry Shortcake[397]
Cream Toast[398]
SOUPS.
General Directions[398]
Stock for Soups[399]
Tomato Soup[399]
Another[400]
A Vegetable Soup[400]
Mock-Turtle Soup[400]
Bean Soup[401]
Soup with Eggs [402]
Green Pea Soup[402]
Turtle Bean Soup[402]
Nursery Soup[403]
Oyster and Clam Soup[403]
Potato Soup[403]
FISH.
To Boil Fresh Fish[404]
Baked Salmon Trout, with Cream Gravy[404]
Boiled Salmon Trout[404]
Fried Halibut[405]
Fish Chowder[405]
To prepare and dress Cold Fish[405]
Newport Fish Pudding[406]
Fish-Balls[406]
Codfish Balls[407]
Scalloped Crabs[407]
Oyster Pie[407]
Oyster Fritters[408]
To Fry Oysters[408]
Lobster Patties[408]
Lobster Rissoles[409]
Fish Sauce[409]
A good Breakfast Dish[409]
Best Mode of Roasting Fish, Ducks, &c.[409]
MEATS.
BEEF.
Leicestershire Hunting Beef[410]
Spiced Beef[410]
Curried Beef[411]
Meat Pie[411]
Beef Collops[411]
To Cook a Beefsteak[412]
Rump Steak, with Oyster Sauce[412]
A French Broil[412]
Beefsteak Rolls[413]
Beef Croquettes[413]
Mock Duck[413]
A Nice Breakfast Dish[413]
Mock Venison[413]
To prepare Cold Roast Beef or Mutton[414]
Economical Breakfast Dish[414]
A “Two Story” [415]
MUTTON AND LAMB.
Shoulder of Mutton Boiled[415]
Shoulder of Mutton Spiced[415]
Mutton Stew[416]
Roasting a Leg of Lamb[416]
To use Cold Lamb[416]
Mint Sauce[416]
VENISON.
Jerked Venison[417]
Venison Steaks[418]
COOKING IN A “RUMFORD BOILER.”
To Roast Beef or Mutton[418]
To Boil a Leg of Lamb or Mutton[418]
Corned Beef[418]
To Cook a Ham[419]
Fish[419]
VEAL.
Meats for June[420]
Calf’s Head and Harslet[420]
Head and Harslet Hash[420]
Veal Pie[421]
Sweetbread Croquettes[421]
Veal Patty[422]
Minced Veal[422]
Veal Hash[422]
Veal Loaf[423]
Croquettes[423]
POULTRY AND GAME.
Steamed Turkey[423]
Broiled Chickens[424]
To Bake a Chicken[425]
Gravy for Roast or Baked Poultry[426]
Chicken Pot-Pie[426]
Fried Chickens[427]
To Cook an Old Fowl[427]
Roast Duck[428]
To Roast a Goose[428]
Wild Goose[429]
To Roast a Green Goose[429]
To Boil a Goose[429]
To Stew a Goose[430]
To Stew Pigeons [430]
Wild Squabs[431]
Chicken Pudding[431]
Chicken Jelly[432]
Chicken Patties[432]
To make Remnants of Meat, Chicken, etc., palatable[432]
Meat Croquettes[433]
PORK AND HAM.
To Boil a Ham[433]
Broiled Ham[433]
Ham Croquettes[433]
Ham and Toast[433]
Ham Toast[434]
To use Cold Boiled Ham[434]
Another Way[434]
Ham Ball[434]
How a Pig was Roasted on a Sugar Plantation[434]
Good Sausage Meat[435]
A Dutch Dish[435]
SALADS AND OMELETS.
Chicken Salad[436]
Italian Chicken Salad[436]
Lobster Salad[437]
Potato Salad[437]
Plain Omelet[437]
Puff Omelet[438]
Oyster Omelet[438]
Omelet with Jelly[438]
Baked Omelet[438]
Omelette Soufflé[439]
EGGS.
Boiled Eggs[439]
Fried Eggs[439]
Poached Eggs[439]
Hard Scrabbled[440]
Fricasseed Eggs, or Egg Baskets[440]
Egg Toast[440]
Scrambled Eggs[441]
Scrambled Eggs[441]
Dropped Eggs[441]
Cottage Cheese[441]
Cheese Toast [442]
VEGETABLES.
Corn[443]
Another Way[444]
Boiling Potatoes[444]
Another Way[444]
To Boil New Potatoes[445]
Mashed Potatoes[445]
Potato Croquettes[445]
Saratoga Fried Potatoes[445]
Scalloped Potatoes[445]
Snow Potatoes[446]
Potato Cakes[446]
To Fry Sweet Potatoes[446]
Macaroni[446]
Egg-Plant[447]
Another Way[447]
Fricasseed Egg-Plant[447]
To Stew Tomatoes[448]
Baked Tomatoes[448]
Scalloped Tomatoes[448]
Boiled Rice[449]
Cooking Rice[449]
Peas[449]
Green Peas[450]
Beans[450]
Asparagus[451]
Spinach[451]
To Boil Cabbage[451]
To Boil Cabbage with Meat[452]
Another Way[452]
Cabbage like Cauliflower[452]
Cauliflower[452]
Hot-Slaw[452]
Cold-Slaw[453]
To Cook Onions[453]
CAKE.
GENERAL RULES.
Loaf Cake[454]
Mrs. Breedley’s Fruit Cake[455]
Rosie’s Raised Cake[455]
Fruit Cake[455]
Farmer’s Fruit Cake [455]
Whortleberry Cake[456]
Olic Cake[456]
Nice little Cakes[456]
Queen Charlotte’s Cake[456]
Lemon Cake[456]
Molasses Drop Cake[457]
Chicago Fruit Cake[457]
Cider Cake[457]
Snow-flake Cake[457]
Cocoa-nut Cake[457]
Macaroons[457]
Delicate Cake[458]
Sponge Cake[458]
Pineapple Cake[458]
Molasses Cup Cake[458]
Loaf Cake[458]
Walnut Cake[459]
Loaf Cake[459]
Western Cake[459]
Snowball Cake[459]
Molasses Cake[459]
Corn-Starch Cake[459]
Moss Cake[459]
Jenny Lind Cake[460]
Sugar Cookies[460]
Cookies[460]
Another Way[460]
Molasses Gingerbread[460]
Plain Gingerbread[460]
Excellent Ginger-Snaps[461]
PIES, PUDDINGS, AND DESSERTS.
Pastry[461]
Puff Paste[461]
Potato Pastry for Meat Pies[462]
Pumpkin Pies[462]
Dried-Apple Pies[462]
Pies of Canned Fruit[463]
Mince Pie[463]
Rice Pie[464]
Apple Puffs[464]
Marlborough Pie[464]
Chess Pie[464]
English Christmas Plum Pudding [464]
A Family Christmas Pudding[465]
A Simple Christmas Pudding[465]
Bread Pudding[466]
Boiled Indian Pudding[466]
Baked Indian Pudding[466]
Palmyra, or Date Pudding[466]
Sponge-Cake Pudding[467]
Steamed Pudding[467]
An Excellent Pudding[467]
Apple and Tapioca Pudding[467]
Sweet-Apple Pudding[468]
Fig Pudding[468]
Barley Cream for Invalids[468]
Apple Float[468]
Sago Pudding[468]
Cocoa-nut Custard[468]
Apple Pudding[468]
Sauce[469]
Nice Cheap Pudding[469]
Orange Pudding[469]
Custard without Eggs[469]
A Quick Pudding[469]
Rice Meringue[470]
Sago Pudding[470]
Lemon or Orange Honeycomb[470]
Apple Snow[470]
Snow Pudding[470]
Cocoa-nut Pudding or Pies[471]
Bohemian Cream[471]
Spanish Cream[471]
Rennet Wine[472]
Cold Custard[472]
Baked Apples[472]
Apple Snow[472]
PRESERVES AND JELLIES.
To Can Peaches[472]
Mixed Marmalade[473]
Jellies[473]
Peach Jelly[474]
Quince Jelly[474]
To Preserve Quinces[474]
Candied Orange Peel[475]
Apple and Quince Sauce [475]
Apple Sauce[475]
Baked Pears[476]
CHEESE.
Stilton Cheese[476]
Cottenham Cheese[476]
Parmesan[476]
Cheddar[477]
Dunlop[477]
New Cheese[477]
Swiss Cheese[477]
Sage or Green Cheese[477]
Cream Cheese[477]
Potato Cheese[478]
Cheese Straus[478]
PICKLES.
Peach Pickles[478]
Pickled Plums[480]
Green Tomato Pickles[480]
To Pickle Green Tomatoes[481]
Pickled Nasturtiums[481]
Pickled Cauliflower[481]
Tomato Pickles[482]
To Pickle Onions[482]
To Pickle Red Cabbage[482]
Cucumber Pickles[482]
To Pickle small Cucumbers and Gherkins[483]
Tomato Catsup[483]
MISCELLANEOUS HINTS.
To make Tea[484]
Substitute for Milk in Tea and Coffee[485]
Bread Crumbs[485]
GLEANINGS.
To Clean Kid Gloves[486]
To keep Grapes[486]
To Clean Oil-Cloths[486]
Fill your Lamps in the Morning[486]
Colored Silk[487]
To Remove Fruit Stains[487]
Bee or Wasp Stings[487]
To Preserve Brooms [487]
Glossy Starch[488]
Salt with Nuts[488]
To take Ink Stains from Mahogany[488]
To keep Quinces[488]
Fruit Stains[488]
Ink Stains[489]
Buying Furs[489]
Drying Umbrellas[490]
A Tight Ring[490]
Scrubbing White Paint[490]
How to wash Graining[490]
To keep Codfish[491]
Zante Currants[491]
To keep Cheese[491]
To keep Smoked Beef and Hams[491]
To keep Preserves[491]
Care of Flour-Barrels[491]
Indian Meal[491]
Coffee and Tea[492]
Raisins and Starch[492]
Household Weights and Measures[492]
To test Flour [492]