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THE BOOK
OF
HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT;
CTcrapvising Snfcrmatton for tfje
MISTRESS,
HOUSEKEEPER,
COOK,
KITCHEN-3IAID,
BUTLER,
FOOTMAN,
COACHMAN,
VALET,
upper and under
house-maids, lady's-maid,
MAID-Or-ALL-WORK,
LAUNDRY-3IAID,
NURSE AND NURSEMAID,
MONTHLY, WET, AND
SICK NURSES,
ETC. ETC.
ALSO, SANITARY, MEDICAL, & LEGAL MEMORANDA j
V/ITH A HISTORY OP THE ORIGIN, PROPERTIES, AND USES OF ALL THINGS^
CONNECTED WITH HOME LIFE AND COMFORT.
BY MKS. ISABELLA BEETON.
Nothing lovelier can be found la Woman, than to study household good. — Milton,
LONDON:
S. 0. BBETON, 248, STEAND, Tv.a
1861.
LONDON:
COX AND WYMAN, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN-STilEET,
LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS.
PEEFACE.
I MUST frankly own, that if I liad known, beforeliand, tliat) lliis book wonld have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no m.ore fruitful source of family discontent tha,n?u housewife's badly -cooked dinners and untidy ways. Men are now so well served out of doors, — at their clubs, v»^ ell- ordered taverns, and dining-houses, that in order to compete with the…