Title: The little helpmate, or, How to keep husbands at home
Description: Subtitle: *a dictionary of useful information not generally known...what dishes are good as well as cheap...the cost and how it is done by professional cooks...together with several valuable household recipes including the wonderful...carpet shampoo, which is alone worth many times the price*

This book contains recipes for the home cook, including one for "an effective antidote for poison"--just in case.
Subjects: Home economics, Économie domestique, cookbook, recipe