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The American Frugal Housewife

by Lydia Maria Child

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Saving time, food and household materials gives Lydia Maria Child's practical handbook its organizing principle. The American Frugal Housewife combines recipes with advice on managing a family budget, furnishing a home and finding uses for small scraps. In the introduction, Child argues for keeping careful accounts, buying only what a household needs and teaching children useful tasks. Her discussion treats thrift as a daily habit shaped by work, judgment and resistance to expensive appearances.

The kitchen sections bring that argument down to specific meals. Hasty pudding, inexpensive custards, mince pies and pumpkin or squash pies show how quantities and ingredients can vary with the family's resources. The contents also include soap, dyes, preserves and the education of daughters.

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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American novelist, poet and journalist who also wrote about abolition. Her fiction and household manuals, including "The American Frugal Housewife", found a broad public from the 1820s to the 1850s. Some of her stories took on questions of male dominance and racial inequality.

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Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
97
Language
English
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