THEEASIEST WAYINHOUSEKEEPING AND COOKING.

Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes

BY

HELEN CAMPBELL,

AUTHOR OF "IN FOREIGN KITCHENS," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "PRISONERSOF POVERTY,", "SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHASCARBOROUGH," "WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS," ETC., ETC.

"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly."

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
1903.

Copyright, 1893,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

A Book for Agnes L.V.W.

AND THE SOUTHERN GIRLS WHO STUDIEDWITH HER.

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

The little book now revised and sent out with someslight additions, remains substantially the same aswhen first issued in 1880. In the midst of always increasingcookery-books, it has had a firm constituency offriends, especially in the South, where its necessity wasfirst made plain. To enlarge it in any marked degreewould violate the original plan, for which the critic willplease read the pages headed "Introductory," where heor she will find full explanation of the growth andpurpose of the book. Whoever desires more receiptsand more elaborate forms of preparation must look fortheir sources in the bibliography at the end, since theirintroduction in these pages would practically nullify thetitle, proved true by years of testing at the hands ofinexperienced housekeepers, whose warm words havelong been very pleasant to the author of "The EasiestWay."

NEW YORK, June, 1893.

CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.