The Virginia Housewife, Or, Methodical Cook: A Facsimile of an Authentic Early American Cookbook

Mary Randolph

Courier Corporation, Nov 1, 1993 - Cooking - 188 pages

Charming guide, published in 1824, offers directions for making rabbit soup, beef steak pie, fried calf's feet, shoulder of mutton with celery sauce, leg of pork with pease pudding, pickled oysters, tansey pudding, plum cakes and other culinary treats. Also, household hints for cleaning silver, drying herbs, more.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Virginia Housewife, Or, Methodical Cook: A Facsimile of an Authentic Early American Cookbook
• Author: Mary Randolph
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 1993
• ISBN: 0486277720, 9780486277721
• Length: 188 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States