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INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.
The compiler of "Useful Receipts and Hints to Young
Housekeepers" entering, early in life, on a train of duties,
was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of
domestic addairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant
preparations were often seen, those connected with the
ordinary but far more useful part of the household duties,
were not easily procured; thus situated, she applied to
persons of experience and embodied the information
collected in a book, to which, since years have matured
her judgment, she has added much that is the result og
her own experiements.
Familiar, then, witht he fifficulties a young housekeeper
encounters, when she finds herself in the reality the
mistress of an establishment, the suthor offers to her
young country-woman, this humble little volume, with
the belief, that, by attention to its contents, many of the
cares attendant on a country or city life, may be materially
lessened. With a hope that the directions are
such as to be understood by the most inexperienced it
is respectfully submitted to those who feel an interest in
domestic affairs.