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Illustrations Frontispiece to Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English Housekeeper, 1786 13 Porcelain teapot, ca. 1740–1760 24 “Pompkin” and “Orange Pudding,” 1796 44 Portrait of Lydia Maria Francis (Child), 1826 47 Lilly Martin Spencer, The Young Wife: First Stew, 1856 53 Portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale, 1850 67 Portrait of Catharine Beecher, 1848 81 “Cooks,” 1852 87 Baker’s Chocolate advertisement, 1898[?] 97 “Young Ladies’ Cooking School of Boston,” 1880 103 Cookbook reader on magazine cover, 1911 108 “The Chowder Party,” 1849 113 “A Lobster-Pot,” 1881 141 “And nicely truss’d a Fowl,” 1817 175 “The Day before Thanksgiving,” 1890 195 “Beef,” 1846 206 “And said she’d make haste & the dainties prepare,” 1810 244 “Here’s great H, and I / With the Christmas Pye,” 1787 255 “The Pride of the Christmas Feast,” 1885 282 “AP-PLE-PYE,” 1814 299 “Is the pudding done?” 1845 325 “All befrosted over with Egg and white Sugar,” 1786 348 ...

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