Excerpt from Family Directory: Or Forty Years Experience of a Practical Housekeeper, With Many Valuable Hints on Health, Farming, Gardening, Fruits and Flowers AuthorsHaving from my youth a disposition to experiment and test whatever seemed desirable and plausible in house keeping, I accumulated a large number of receipts, which, after testing, I preserved for. Future reference.The health and comfort of a family depend greatly on well-cooked and properly seasoned food, and regularity in eating, and are often destroyed for the want of it.There are already many books on the subject of cookery and house-keeping, yet few, if any of them, have been prepared and published from the experience of practical house-keepers and many of them contain so many things not within the reach of persons in moderate circumstances, that they are laid aside as useless.Another objection to most cook books is the vast mem ber of receipts given in one department: for instance, cakes and puddings, (some having over fifty) that it per plexes young house-keepers, and they do not know which to choose. This I have avoided, giving only a few rich and a few plain, varying the material of which they are made as much' as possible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.