The Pocumtuc housewife : a guide to domestic cookery, as it is practiced in the Connecticut Valley : to which are added plain directions for soap-making, brewing, candle dipping, clear starching, caring for the sick and all duties of a careful housewife : especially adapted to the use of young wives who come from outside places and are not conversant with the ways of the Valley, and of female orphans who have not had a mother's training

Several Ladies

 Deerfield, MA : Willard Lend a Hand Society, 1897

[Early Cookbook from Western Massachusetts.]  Pamphlet. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Bound in publisher's wraps.  51 pages : illustrations.  Brown, Culinary Americana 1322 (1925 edition).  Originally written in 1805. Contents: Advertisement to first edition --Note to revised edition, 1897 --What to eat --Meats --Directions for roasting --Pickling and preserving meats --Baking day --Bread --Pies --Cake --Custards and syllabubs --Porridges and mushes --Pickles and preserves --The physical director --Food for the sick --Miscellany --Dyeing.