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The Carolina Housewife
or House and Home:
by a Lady of Charleston.
by
Sarah Rutledge
W. R. Babcock & Co: Charleston, S.C., 1847
PREFACE. THE CAROLINA HOUSEWIFE. HOUSE AND HOME.
We call this `House and Home,' because a house is not a home, though inhabited, unless there preside over its daily meals a spirit of order, and a certain knowledge of the manner in which food is to be prepared and served. We can hardly call that house a home to which a man dares not carry a friend without previous notice to his wife or daughter, for fear of finding an ill-dressed, ill-served dinner, together with looks of dismay at the intrusion.
Among some valuable receipts given us by an experienced housekeeper, we find one for throwing an illusion over an indifferent dinner, to which company is suddenly brought home, by that notoriously thoughtless person, the husband. It runs thus: `A clean table-cloth and a smiling countenance.' The former may be commanded: but there
are
dinners over which the mistress of . . .
										
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