Home Economics

Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and their food at sea and ashore in the nineteenth century.

This is a "food history" book that incorporates a social history of preparing and eating food; it includes recipes, many from old cookbooks.

The Girl’s Own Book

Every girl should learn to be useful, improve her mind, exhibit elegant accomplishments, refined taste, and gracefulness of manner, according to this little book.

Customs on the Table Top: How New England Housewives Set Out their Tables

Description of New Englander as good host, hearty eater, and "prodigious drinker."

Seventy.five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

This is a facsimile of the original 1828 publication. The writer is really Eliza Lislie