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    Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six
    Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six
    Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six
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    Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six

    By Juliet Corson

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     Self published by the founder of the New York Cooking School, this forty-page leaflet was designed to educate new immigrant families with low incomes about preparing good, healthy meals. As the industrial revolution gathered steam and reformers focused on living conditions of the poor and disadvantaged, economical themes began to appear in cookbooks, and Corson’s pamphlet was extremely popular. In addition to numerous recipes and food preparation techniques, the book contains a “Daily Bill of Fare for One Week”—seven days of menus that cost $2.53 in total leaving a balance of $.62 for extra bread, milk, and butter. The little volume also contains favorable reviews of the book from contemporary publications, and an “ad” for six other books by Corson. The title page contains the following quote from the author: “This little book may not be a welcome guest in the home of the man who fares abundantly every day; it is not written for him; but to the working man, who wants to make the best of his wages, I pray it may bring help and comfort.”

    This facsimile edition of Juliet Corson’s Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, 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. The Society collects, preserves, and makes available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781449428082
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      Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six - Juliet Corson

      This edition of Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six by Juliet Corson 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.

      OTHER BOOKS IN

      THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

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      The Canadian Housewife’s Manual of Cookery

      The Compleat Housewife, by Eliza Smith

      The Cook Not Mad

      Cottage Economy, by William Cobbett

      Dainty Dishes, by Lady Harriet E. St. Clair

      Dairying Exemplified, by Josiah Twamley

      The Hand-Book of Carving

      How to Mix Drinks, by Jerry Thomas

      Jewish Cookery Book, by Esther Levy

      Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book, by Eliza Leslie

      Mrs. Owen’s Illinois Cook Book, by Mrs. T.J.V. Owen

      Mrs. Porter’s New Southern Cookery Book, by Mrs. M.E. Porter

      The New England Cook Book 

      The Physiology of Taste, by Jean A. Brillat-Savarin

      The Times’ Recipes, by The New York Times

      A Treatise on Bread, by Sylvester Graham

      Vegetable Diet, by William Alcott

      What to Do with the Cold Mutton

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      PREFACE

      TO THE WIVES OF WORKINGMEN:

      In planning how to make the wages of the working man provide his family with the necessaries of life, the first point to be considered is the daily supply of food. If this little book shows the laborer’s wife how to feed her husband and children upon one half, or one third, or even, in times of great distress, upon the whole of his scanty wages, its object will be accomplished.

      The cheapest kinds of food are sometimes the most wholesome and strengthening; but in order to obtain all their best qualities we must know how to choose them for their freshness, goodness, and suitability to our needs. That done, we must see how to cook them, so as to make savory and nutritous meals instead of tasteless or sodden messes, the eating whereof sends the man to the liquor shop for consolation.

      Good food, properly cooked, gives us good blood, sound bones, healthy brains, strong nerves, and firm flesh, to say nothing of good tempers and kind hearts. These are surely worth a little trouble to secure.

      The first food of nearly all living creatures is milk, the only entire natural food; that is, the only food upon which health and strength can be sustained for any length of time, without using any other nourishment. For this reason it is the best food you can give the children if you must restrict their diet at all; and it also is

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