2024 the best housewives review

Price: $14.95 - $9.47
(as of Dec 26, 2024 22:41:07 UTC - Details)

Includes interesting recipes, remedies, advice on parenting, and tips for housekeepers. From 1832-1845, this popular book went through thirty-two editions. 90084

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Applewood Books; 12th ed. edition (August 1, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0918222982
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0918222985
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
Reviewer: A Mom with Kids and Fur Kids
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Review of the free KINDLE version of "The American Frugal Housewife"
Review: "The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments,so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of time as well as materials. Nothing should bethrown away so long as it is possible to make any use of it. However trifling that usemay be; and whatever be the size of a family every member should be employed either inearning or saving money."This is for the most part, the only proper "Introduction" that the reader encounters when starting "The American Frugal Housewife, for Ms. Lydia Maria Francis Child plunges right in and begins dishing out advice left and right, providing a veritable flood of information. She advises, for example, that children not be allowed to frolic about until 13 or 14 years of age."This is not well. It is not well for the purses and patience of parents; and it has astill worse effect on the morals and habits of the children. Begin early is the greatmaxim for everything in education. A child of six years old can be made useful andshould be taught to consider every day lost in which some little thing has not been doneto assist others."Other advice consists of how economize and how keep what you have in good repair. Everything from stockings to hearths, from apples to sausages. In addition, there is medical advice, and instructions on how to cook a variety of foods. Everything from porridges to cows brains, herbed wines to pies.STEWED PRUNES.Stew them very gently in a small quantity of water till stones slip out. Physiciansconsider them safe nourishment in fevers.BEANS AND PEAS.Baked beans are a very simple dish, yet few cook them well. They should be put in coldwater, and hung over the fire, the night before they are baked. In the morning, theyshould be put in a colander, and rinsed two or three times; then again placed in akettle, with the pork you intend to bake, covered with water, and kept scalding hot, inhour or more. A pound of pork is quite enough for a quart of beans, and that is a largedinner for a common family. The rind of the pork should be slashed. Pieces of pork alter-nately fat and lean, are the most suitable ; the cheeks are the best. A little peppersprinkled among the beans, when they are placed in the bean-pot, will render them lessunhealthy. They should be just covered with water, when put into the oven ; and the porkshould be sunk a little below the surface of the beans. Bake three or four hours.THE SKINNY:::To be perfectly honest, there is some sound advice here. Some of it inspired by Ben Franklin, and some of it coming from friends and articles read by the author.I found this an absolutely fascinating book that gives some wonderful insight into the daily life of early American families. We get to see what the concerns of housewives were, and how life was lived amongst a class of people -- the less well-off -- that is frequently overlooked by historical studies.Ms. Child was born in 1802. She was raised by a strict Calvinist father and later she married a lawyer who proved to be an improvident dreamer who at times was imprisoned for his debts. As a consequence she knows frugality quite well.The American Frugal Housewife is extremely well written, and was extremely well received at the time it was first put up for sale. In fact, it was republished 27 times between 1835 and 1841.I HIGHLY recommend this work to students of history and those who are interested in early American life.As for the "Kindle" format, I must say that this particular version comes with 'highlights', some of which are definitions. These are easy to access or ignore. (Which is why I can't tell you what they all are.) Being a FREE book it's hard to complain, but I should note that there are images from the original book that don't appear in the Kindle copy. They pertain to the parts of animals -- rumps, chops, etc.-- and aren't particularly valuable. But if you are curious you can find them at GoogleBooks and Archive-dot-org, both of whom have their own free copies.ASIN: B002RKTKXOPam T~pageinhistory

Reviewer: GWin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Quick reading with timeless advice
Review: This is a book every home needs on the shelf, an easy read with valuable information. It is not 'organized' and is more of a journal with a flow of thought and precise instructions for those who are looking to learn from elders--many thanks to those who made this available for us today!

Reviewer: MainelyClassics
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Kindle Review: Advice for Housekeeping On a Budget that Still Rings True after 180 Years!!!
Review: Do I have anything in common with a Massachusetts housewife from 1832? This book is "Dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy." Sounds like rural Maine where I live... hmmmm....Nothing should be thrown away, neither TIME nor MATERIALS. Replete with Benjamin Franklin`s sayings like "Time is money" "Nothing is cheap that we do not want" and "A fat kitchen maketh a lean will." "Self-denial, in proportion to the narrowness of your income, will be the happiest and most respectable course for you and yours." Can we "prove, by the exertion of ingenuity and economy, that neatness, good taste, and gentility, are attainable without great expense"?Keeping busy: knitting, "patchwork" (quilting), preparing and braiding straw for hats, making feather fans. "A child of six years old can be made useful...help[ing] others..." There are some religious overtones here. "Conduct [rather than means] is the real standard of respectability."Chapters include: making soap, simple remedies (some scary ones like ointment of ground worms and putting sugar of lead with one gill of rose-water for sore [nursing] nipples - !), common cooking (everything from whortleberry pie to beer), hints to persons of moderate fortune, furniture, education of daughters (a product of its times, about domestic education), traveling and public amusements, reasons for hard times, how to endure poverty.The Kindle edition of March 17, 2006 has a couple of editing errors (like "except in very rigid weather...") The margins are justified and really nice. This Kindle edition does have an interactive TOC and an interactive index, great features for the price (free : )All in all, an interesting historical perspective of keeping house within a budget, but don't take all of its advice!!!

Reviewer: Robert Harrold
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Advice for Today.
Review: Good basic recipes for prepping but more importantly the general advice is sorely needed in today's social changing climate!

Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I came across this at a friends house and LOVED it - quirky
Review: I came across this at a friends house and LOVED it - quirky, vintage perspectives - I love the book but it's (obviously) reproduced and that's the problem ... it's so poorly printed. There's almost no margin of space towards the spine so the image area runs in too far (pain in the neck to read) but I still like the book and bought two, one as sort of a funny gift to a new bride. It's certainly not meant for 2016 but fun to see how frugality was handled in 1833!

Reviewer: Bill Bailey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The writer has no apology to offer for this cheap little book of economical hints, except her deep conviction that such a book is needed. In this case, renown is out of the question, and ridicule is a matter of indifference.
Review: The Writer of this book is quoted in the Headline. It is a fantastic read in common sense, something that is lacking both then and now. I bought this book by accident buy I found I really enjoy its profound wisdom from a bygone era.'There is a pretty passage in one of Lucian's dialogues, where Jupiter complains to Cupid, that, though he has had so many intrigues, he was never sincerely beloved. "In order to be loved," says Cupid, "you must lay aside your aegis and your thunder-bolts; you must curl and perfume your hair, and place a garland on your head, and walk with a soft step, and assume a winning, obsequious deportment." "But," replied Jupiter, "I am not willing to resign so much of my dignity." "Then," returned Cupid, "leave off desiring to be loved."'There are very old fashioned Frugal recipes

Reviewer: terri
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Total waste.
Review: Total waste of time and money. I wouldn't recommend it to any one. Columns of nonsensical words. Review said 148 pages, I got three and a half. Tried to download it again, still the same. The sample looked the same as well.

Reviewer: BAT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I love to read assorted recipes. This book is excellent, well written. I am be following this Author 🙂 ✅

Reviewer: Serenella A.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Una testimonianza sulla vita delle donne vittoriane. Interessante quadro di un mondo perduto, da non dimenticare.

Reviewer: N. Kinsman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lydia Marie Child opinions of health diet and other observations are amazingly correct but not necessarily her reasoning. IT IS FUNNY! Recipes are good. Beware of earwax.

Reviewer: andrea
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: great to read learnt more

Reviewer: Ahazarus
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: as described and promptly delivered