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Excerpt from Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy The present collection of Recipes has been selected and arranged with much care and a well-directed attention: they are the results of experience, and will be found, on inspection, to contain nearly, if not all, that can be esteemed essential for the production alike of a simply or a most elaborately furnished table. The necessity as well as the propriety of well regulated domestic arrangements, in the household of all classes and conditions, cannot be questioned; every income has its limit, and the mistress of the house should see that her domestic expenses do not exceed that of her husband. The young housekeeper should be acquainted with the extent of her husband's resources, and resolve with firmness to regulate her household with such prudence and economy as not to exceed them. However unromantic it may be, it is a certain fact, that the happiness of life is not a little dependent upon the stomach; so the professors of medicine teach us. As all our ailments, save fractured limbs and wounds from instruments, proceed from a disordered stomach, so very much of our domestic comfort proceeds from the arrangement and regularity of the daily meal. This is a point strongly to be considered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.