From the Preface.—“The reception accorded to the Ten-Shillings-a-Head book, and the number of letters I have received from its readers, asking, like Oliver Twist, for ‘more,’ have led to the publication of the present book, which is practically a second volume of Ten-Shillings-a-Head. Like its fore-runner, it is a collection of proven recipes inexpensive enough to be included in the menu of the ten-shillings-a-week house-keeper, and simple enough to be within the powers of a single-handed cook.”
How to Keep House
“A better present for a young wife setting up housekeeping it would be hard to find.”—The Queen.
CONTENTS
The Importance of Good Housekeeping—How Housekeeping may be Learned—Setting up House—House-hunting and House-taking—Rents, Rates, Taxes, &c.—Divisions of Incomes varying from £200 to £2,000—Duties of Mistresses—Servants: how their work is apportioned in House-holds of various sizes—Servants and their separate Duties, Dress and Wages—Engagement and Dismissal of Servants—Sanitation of the House—Care of the Linen—Warming and lighting—Hostess and Guests—How to Clean Kitchen, Glass, China, Carpets, Rooms, &c.—Weights and Measures—Ready Reckoner—Income and Wages Table.
The New Home
Treating of the Arrangement, Decoration, and Furnishing of a House of Medium Size, to be maintained by a Moderate Income
Fully Illustrated
From the Preface.—“The aim of this book is not only to show how effects of comfort, beauty, and fitness may be brought about; but also how they may be brought about with economy.”
[Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged