Sarah Rutledge - The Carolina Housewife: Or, House and Home

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This edition of The Carolina Housewife by Sarah Rutledge was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. AAS aims to collect, preserve, and make available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.

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PREFACE.

W E call this House and Home because a House is not a Home, though inhabited, unless there preside over its daily meals a spirit of order and a certain knowledge of the manner in which food is to be prepared and served. We can hardly call that House and Home to which a man dares not carry a friend without previous notice to his wife or daughter, for fear of finding an ill-dressed, ill-served dinner; together with looks of dismay at the intrusion.

Among some valuable receipts given us by an experienced housekeeper, we find one for throwing an illusion over an indifferent dinner, to which company is suddenly brought home by that notoriously thoughtless person,the husband. It runs thusa clean table cloth and a smiling countenance. The former may be commanded; but there are dinners over which the mistress of the house cannot smile; they are too bad for dissimulation; the dinner is eaten in confusion of face by all parties; and the memory of it does not speedily die. Much of the discomfort of this might be spared were our grandmothers receipt books so studied as to make it easy to teach the cook to send up the simplest meal properly dressed, and good of its kind. But the manuscript, in which is gathered a whole lifetimes experience, cannot be in the possession of more than one family in ten. It rarely happens that more than one woman in three generations takes the pains to collect and arrange receipts; and if her descendants are many, the greater part lose the benefit of her instructions.

French or English Cookery Books are to be found in every bookstore; but these are for French or English servants, and almost always require an apparatus either beyond our reach or too complicated for our native cooks.

The Carolina Housewife will contain, principally, receipts for dishes that have been made in our own homes, and with no more elaborate abattire de cuisine than that belonging to families of moderate income: even those dishes lately introduced among us have been successfully made by our own cooks.