A charming blind-relief embossed early edition of Alcott's classic work on cooking and 19th century culinary practice.

The introductory chapters are all on the dignity of the vocation of "home making." These are followed by sections on the making of breads, james, gingerbread, pickling, advantages and uses of particular kinds of corns, rices, and potatoes, buckwheat pancakes, beans and squashes, arrow root, a section on apples [nature's noblest gift], various berrys and fruits and nuts, etc., etc., A classic.

Alcott, Wm. A. The Young House-keeper. Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery. By Wm. A. Alcott, Author of the Young Wife, Young Mother, House I Live In, and Young Man's Guide, and Editor of the Library of Health. Third Stereotype Edition. Boston. George W. Light. 1838. 424pp. 

A good + copy, bound in cloth, very solid, with light to moderate foxing. first couple pages with creases.