Mrs. Elliott's Housewife: Containing Practical Receipts in Cookery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781396319167)

Mrs. Elliott presents over 900 authentic recipes from the American South.

She has everything from a steaming hot chicken-cream soup, through juicy beef steak and crunchy roasted potatoes, to baking home-made fresh bread and cake!

These pages are perfect for those looking for traditional kitchen wisdom, and remain just as relevant today. Their brevity will surprise those used to getting a life story for each recipe, but will reward inspiration seekers.

Although it focuses primarily on cooking, it also includes tips on cleanliness and how to utilize your appliance and kitchen utensils and prolong their lifetime.

"You will find not only economy of time by attending to these rules, but a great saving in their use."

Mrs. Elliott even teaches you how to set the table and atmosphere of the room to enjoy a meal to the fullest.

"Within the reach of all there is a style in which the millionaire's wife in her gilded walls cannot surpass the wife of the peasant in her humble dome."

Make Mrs. Elliott your kitchen companion and learn that famous Southern Hospitality today.