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dihelds; we must put 1t down as we nnd IL,
whether Mrs. or Miss is more than we know,
nor do we care. She was, at least so they say,
celebrated for nearly fifty years, as q cake
and pastry baker in South Ninth street, above
Spruce, in Philadelphia" That is long enough
experience, one would think, to know some
what about these matters. 1t is good vouch-
er, certainly, for the cake and pastry receipts.
But how about the others Can every one
who can make good cake and pies also cook
beefsteak or leg of mutton, roast a pig or
turkey, boil chicken or ham, as well? Such
would seem to be the inference. But we are
not left to mere assumption. Here comes
along with this book slip, or extract, from
| The Ladies' National Magazine for October.
Hear what they say. The ladies must be good
judges of cookery. "None of the receipts
have ever been published" There are novel
ties here in store for you, housewives "They
have been tried for years by hundreds of Mrs.
(ah we were mistaken; it is Mrs. Widdifeld,
after all;) Mrs. Widdfelds pupils, many of
whom we know personally, and can therefore
conscentiously recommend them" So, it
seems, she is, or was, lady professor of the
culinary art and has taught extensively. There
Is little ambiguity perhaps purposely) as to
this recommendation, whether of the "pupils,"
or the Receipts" We presume, however, the
latter must be meant. "We have no hesita-
ton in pronouncing it the best work on the
subject there is"
Here we do not intend to underwrite the
Ladies' Magazine; for if we did, with so many
others laying as strong claims before the pub
lie, we might chance to have something worse
than hornets nest about our ears. So we
put that responsibility on our quotation. Taste
is strange thing, and there are some mixtures
of condiments that strike us as singular,
though they may be all right, perhaps. For
instance, to rub sugar on shad, before brol-
ing. We suppose it is just the thing; but
when we read it, we could not help thinking
how like it sounded to "pork and molasses :"
does it not, good reader? Then the Cayenne
pepper" that comes in 80 often-it would be-
we confess, little too fiery to suit our simple
taste; but we have a saving clause now and
then, as "pepper to your TASTE" or something
of that sort, which means, we suppose, I" use
duodecimo, strongly bound, for one dollar, big
type, full loaded, and so it can be easily con-
suited, especially as it has a table of contents,
and an index, referring to the number of the
receipts" Practical Receipts for the House
wife," Buy one, and follow its directions, and
see if you do not find your pigs and turkeys,
pies and cakes, all nicely cooked, and every
one of them, as it were, saying, "Come, and
eat me-" But, in sober truth, we believe this
to be very useful guide in culinary affairs,
and we are sure necessary one nowadays,
when the branch of domestic economy in fe-
male education is crowded so far out of sight /;
and its first lessons, in many instances, have to
be learned by painful and bitter experience
for the young and Newmarket wife.
| NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, No 4. August, 1856 American
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