Directions for Cookery
Eliza Leslie The success of her little book entitled "Seventy-five Receipts in Cakes, Pastry, and Sweetmeats." has encouraged the author to attempt a larger and more miscellaneous work on the subject of cookery, comprising as far as practicable whatever is most useful in its various departments, and particularly adapted to the domestic economy of her own country.
Designing it as a manual of American housewifery, she has avoided the insertion of any dishe...