Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : adapted for families in the middling, & genteel ranks of life, with a complete family physician, instructions for making British wines, brewing, baking, &c., &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : adapted for families in the middling, & genteel ranks of life, with a complete family physician, instructions for making British wines, brewing, baking, &c., &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    flection be convinced, that much depends on the vigilance of her conduct, as far as respects good management and domestic economy. The most trifling events should claim her notice, for the keen eye of a superior can alone restrain servants and dependents within proper bounds, and prevent that waste which would otherwise ensue. This is a line of conduct which the present high price of every article of life renders still more imperative. No female should ever harbour a moment’s doubt re- specting her power to conduct and manage a fa- mily, even if previously unused to it, as many of her senior friends will freely give her their advice, and a short practical experience will soon render her able to estimate the best mode of management, and also teach her how to govern her family expen- diture agreeable to her income, and how to lay out her money to the greatest advantage. To execute this in a proper manner, a strict account of the yearly income, set apart for domestic expences, should be carefully taken, and that it may not be ignorantly exceeded, a minute account of the daily expenditure should be invariably made out, by which a regular and careful habit of prudent eco- nomy will be obtained; and should the expences of one week then exceed their bounds, it must be made up by retrenching on those of the following weeks. By keeping this account, ladies will learn more particularly the value of various articles than they could do in any other manner. The family accounts should be regularly kept without the omission even of one penny, and weekly, or monthly, correctly balanced. Much trouble will in this manner be saved, and the stated expendi- ture of course will be constantly know'll, so that no excuse can be offered for wanton extravagance, or wilful ignorance. In marriage, much mischief is often occasioned