The Virginia House-Wife

Mary Randolph; Professor Karen Hess
University of South Carolina Press
9780872494237
0-87249-423-3

First published in 1825, The Virginia House-Wife was the most influential cookbook in nineteenth-century America. Considered the ultimate how-to cookbook, it rivals some of the currently popular cookbooks.

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with its commonsense knowledge and advice which remains practical to this day.