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The Virginia House-Wife

✍️ Randolph, Mary
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🏛 University of South Carolina Press 📅 1984 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780872494237

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First published in 1825, The Virginia House-Wife was the most influential cookbook in nineteenth-century America. Considered the ultimate how-to cookbook, it rivals some of the currently popular cookbooks with its commonsense knowledge and advice which remains practical to this day.

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