# The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook

Author: Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828

Genre: Cookbooks and Cooking

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12519

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Virginia+Housewife%3B+Or%2C+Methodical+Cook+Randolph&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a housekeeping life, from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise to impart knowledge to a Tyro, compelled me to study the subject, and by actual experiment to reduce every thing in the culinary line, to proper weights and measures. This method I found not only to diminish the necessary attention and labour, but to be also economical: for, when the ingredients employed were given in just proportions, the article made was always equally good. The government of a family, bears a Lilliputian resemblance to the government of a nation. The contents of the Treasury must be known, and great care taken to keep the expen...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-virginia-housewife-or-methodical-cook-12519/chapters/1/index.md)