“Frugality and Economy are Home Virtues”: Thrift in the Textual Space of the Nineteenth-century Recipe
Journal: Global Food History
Year: 2022

In the nineteenth century, the ideology of thrift was pervasive in didactic nonfiction, which encouraged readers to engage with frugality as an economic and moral stance. Samuel Smiles’ Thrift (1875) emphasized the importance of thrift to individuals and society, positioning it within the domestic setting. To understand how thrift was enacted in the nineteenth-century home, this article examines the ideology of thrift in cookbooks and recipes. These writings sought to practically enable readers