Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Elizabeth Ellicott Lea

Published: 3rd Edition. 1st edition: Baltimore, H. Colburn, bookseller, 1845. 5th edition: Baltimore, Cushings and Bailey, 1853

Elizabeth was a Quaker. Besides cooking, she also writes about household items and duties, folk medicine and more. Many interesting recipies including baked pig's head, brain cakes, Irish style spiced beef, oyster pie, Virginia hoe cake, Carolina corn rolls, Irish moss Blancmange

This Work having passed through two editions, and having met with a very favorable reception, the Authoress has been induced to thoroughly revise and re-arrange the whole work. Numerous additions have also been made, particularly under the heads Miscellaneous Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers, which she hopes will be found to have enhanced its value.

The compiler of "Useful Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers" having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen, those connected with the ordinary, but far more useful part of household duties, were not easily procured; thus situated, she applied to persons of experience, and embodied the information collected in a book, to which, since years have matured her judgment, she has added much that is the result of her own experiments.

Familiar, then, with the difficulties a young housekeeper encounters, when she finds herself in reality the mistress of an establishment, the Authoress offers to her young countrywomen this Work, with the belief that, by attention to its contents, many of the cares attendant on a country or city life, may be materially lessened; and hoping that the directions are such as to be understood by the most inexperienced, it is respectfully dedicated to those who feel an interest in domestic affairs.