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Textile Fabrics

Daniel Rock

Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum. Like every other specific coll..

Condiments, Spices and Flavors

Mary Elizabeth Green

In this pamphlet no attempt has been made to give specific directions as to the uses of spices and condiments. It must be borne in mind that their usage results neither from the demands of fashion nor..

Over 250 Ways to Cook and Serve Fish and Other Productions of the Sea

Anonymous

Cook books there are of all sorts and shapes, but strange to say the subject of Fish Cookery has been sadly neglected in all of them. The experience of distinguished chefs and epicures of many la..

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making

Sylvester Graham

There are probably few people in civilized life, who—were the question put to them directly—would not say, that they consider bread one of the most, if not the most important article of diet which ent..

All-Time Favorite Cranberry Recipes

Anonymous

Every cranberry delivered to a receiving station must measure up to the highest standards of quality before it can travel under the Ocean Spray label. After passing through a machine which blows out t..

A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House

Jessie Conrad

Good cooking is a moral agent. By good cooking I mean the conscientious preparation of the simple food of every-day life, not the more or less skillful concoction of idle feasts and rare dishes. Consc..

Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments

Ethel R. Peyser

Several years ago we heard a great deal of talk about women’s place being in the home. The slogan was used as a campaign challenge and as a sneer. It was bandied up and down the country-side until we ..

Texas Pecan Recipes

Reagan V. Brown

The Texas pecan industry has grown significantly from the days when the nuts were gathered by the family and hauled to town to sell during the season. Today, modern storage facilities and packaging ma..