The house servant's directory, or, A monitor for private families : comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards in first order, the art of waiting in all its branches and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order, general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, full instructions for cleaning plate, brass, steel, glass, mahogany, all kinds of patent and common lamps, observations on servants' behaviour to their employers and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts, chiefly compiled for the use of house servants and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States : with friendly advice to cooks and heads of families, and complete directions how to burn Lehigh coal,
UC San Diego's AIWF Collection includes more than 7,200 volumes, beginning with descriptions of European cuisine and culinary history from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, and more recently focusing on Asia, Mexico and Latin America, California and the American West and the nation...
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