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Questions before ordering? Use this form to request more information from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA About The Frugal House Wife [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, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole.