(Vermont) Every-Day Helps. Comprising the Housewife's Guide, Diamond Cook-Book, Hand-book for the Nursery, Renovating and Renewing, Home Dyeing, Family Dairying, Domestic Cheese Making. Children's The Cook's Oracle first appeared

The Cook's Oracle first appeared in 1817 and went through many editions

spicy gingerbread

cold roast duck

as well as some historic images of Japanese sweets from antiquarian books

forks and napery

(Vermont) Every-Day Helps. Comprising the Housewife's Guide, Diamond Cook-Book, Hand-book for the Nursery, Renovating and Renewing, Home Dyeing, Family Dairying, Domestic Cheese Making. Children's The Cook's Oracle first appeared238 pp. Illus. with engravings, and with 4 pp. of engraved ads in rear. Cloth backed gilt lettered boards. Burlington, VT: Wells, Richardson, 1892. A Vermont centric book with concentration on dairying and butter and cheesemaking. Sponsored by Diamond Dyes, with a cool chart of color blends for dyeing wool. Irregular fading to front cover; front joint starting, else about very good.