Miss Beecher's Housekeeper

Miss Beecher's Housekeeper
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2008
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429090073

Part cookbook, part health manual, and part domestic guide, this collection, originally published in 1873, sought to codify and simplify the information and skills needed to efficiently and effectively run a household.

MISS BEECHERS HOUSEKEEPER & HE

MISS BEECHERS HOUSEKEEPER & HE
Author: Catharine Esther 1800-1878 Beecher
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781372339677

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Home Comforts

Home Comforts
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2005-05-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0743272862

A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.