<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eshown@comcast.net">eshown@comcast.net</a> wrote on 9/9/2010 4:15 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:052f01cb5064$17340d30$459c2790$@net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">.. Ages ago, I found a delightful book: Marion Cabell Tyree, _Housekeeping in Old Virginia_ (Loisville, Ky.: John P. Morton and Co., 1879).</pre> </blockquote> <blockquote cite="mid:052f01cb5064$17340d30$459c2790$@net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">... If anyone is interested in it, it's digitized on Google. </pre> </blockquote> Thank you for bringing this up, Elizabeth. I love these old cookbooks and tips for housewives. Back in the 1970s I had a book for housewives that was written by Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter. I vividly remember the recipe for chicken starting with instructions on how to remove the feathers. I loaned that book to someone and never got it back. Your note reminded me I might be able to find it on Google books or Internet archive. I found /The Virginia Housewife/ by Mary Randolph on Internet Archive and I think it is the book I remember. I thought I'd point out for those who haven't discovered it yet -- most PDF files on Google books are scanned images of the book that do not allow searches after you download the PDF to your computer. After I learned the Google PDFs are not searchable I always look for the book elsewhere. Internet Archive (archive.org) creates searchable PDFs. In the case of some books Internet Archive only has text and HTML files or links to contributors like Project Gutenberg. But I much prefer having a searchable version. Someday I am going to get brave and try my hand at making soap, but I may look for an updated recipe that doesn't start with making a fire. <smile> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards, Debbie Debbie Parker Wayne, East Texas Wayne Research -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debbiewayne.com/">http://debbiewayne.com/</a> Blog -- Deb's Delvings <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debsdelvings.blogspot.com/">http://debsdelvings.blogspot.com/</a> DNA Project Admin -- Spanish_Grants and Texas State GS Director -- First Families of Texas </pre> </body> </html>