Note B.The author of this volume is preparing a new edition of her works on Domestic Science and Economy with many improvements. Its name is to beThe Housekeeper and Healthkeeper, and it is designed for a complete Encyclopædia of Domestic Science and Practice. It will be published this winter by the Harpers.
Note B.The author of this volume is preparing a new edition of her works on Domestic Science and Economy with many improvements. Its name is to beThe Housekeeper and Healthkeeper, and it is designed for a complete Encyclopædia of Domestic Science and Practice. It will be published this winter by the Harpers.
It will offer these new and peculiar features:
1. The recipes for food and drink will be in two portions. The first portion will embrace averylarge collection of simple and economical dishes, which, according toallmedical and physiological rules, areperfectly healthful. The second portion will be a collection of more elaborate and expensive articles, which, according toallrules, are of at least doubtful character as to healthfulness. Thus, every housekeeper will have safe and intelligent guidance in her selections.
2. There will beexact directionsas toflavors and seasonings, such as in most receipt-books are to be "according to the taste," thus leaving young housekeepers to the mercies of untrained cooks.
3. It will contain exact directions for preserving and restoring health by thescientificuse of thenatural agenciesof water, heat, cold, light, diet, exercise, and pure air, and such only as will be approved by scientific men ofallmedical schools.