Excerpt from The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook: Wherein the Art of Dressing All Sorts of Viands, With Cleanliness, Decency, and Elegance, Is Explained in Five Hundred Approved Receipts _n this rewfeiigand corfeeted Edition of the frugal housewiee: fey'eral g'onfid'era; ble improvements have been made; fihich will be obvious upon a perufal. -it was al to the author, that, asibe chief exc of all Cookery confifis m a perfeet acquaintance with the making of Gravies and Sauces, it would be pmper to place thefe Chapters at the begin the Volume, and to prefix a Number to whereby, When the young Cool; confults any Re ceipt {he may want, lhe will not onlybe informed what fauce fhe 18 to ferye it up with, but will be. 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.