Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book

Catharine Esther Beecher's 'Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book,' designed as a complement to her earlier work on household management, offers a compendium of practical advice on culinary and domestic servitude in 19th-century America. It embodies the didactic literature of its time, imparting wisdom not only on recipe formulation but on the broader cultural and domestic arts. Beecher's unique pr...