The Virginia Housewife, or Methodical Cook

By Mary Randolph

In addition to providing an interesting perspective of the culinary attitudes of one of the most influential cooks of the 1800s, this book also contains an impressive list of recipes, both exotic and familiar- from catfish and biscuit recipes to fried calf's feet and sweetbread and oyster pie.
Randolph also gives instructions on domestic tasks such as making soap and cleaning silver to create a guide every southern homemaker in the 1800s would find useful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Antiquarius
• Release date: Oct 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647983369

Mary Randolph

Mary Randolph earned her law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Executor's Guide: Settling Your Loved One's Estate or Trust, and 8 Ways to Avoid Probate. Randolph is also a coauthor of the legal manual for Quicken WillMaker Plus. She has been a guest on The Today Show and has been interviewed by many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

Reviews for The Virginia Housewife, or Methodical Cook

[empress8411 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was an intriguing and amusing book. The recipes! Crazy! Everything seem to take a pound of sugar or salt, or brandy, and it all takes hours and hours to cook. It's amazing how many different dishes they made with the same ingredients. If you wanted to try to recreate them, you could, but the amounts are a bit off and there is no mention of how many each dish feeds - so you might end up with enough stew for a whole plantation! Some of the cakes and roasts look tasty and I might try my hand at making a version more suited to our era. Worth reading!