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                             MISS PARLOA’S

                           YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER

                  Designed Especially to aid Beginners


             ECONOMICAL RECEIPTS FOR THOSE WHO ARE COOKING
                            FOR TWO OR THREE


                                   BY
                              MARIA PARLOA

          FOUNDER OF TWO SCHOOLS OF COOKERY AND AUTHOR OF “THE
        APPLEDORE COOK BOOK,” “MISS PARLOA’S KITCHEN COMPANION,”
                    “MISS PARLOA’S NEW COOK BOOK AND
                 MARKETING GUIDE,” “FIRST PRINCIPLES OF
                      HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT,” ETC.


                             _ILLUSTRATED_


                                 BOSTON
                           ESTES AND LAURIAT
                                  1894




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                            COPYRIGHT, 1893,
                            BY MARIA PARLOA.




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




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                                PREFACE.

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WHEREVER I have gone in the last fifteen years in following my calling
as a teacher of cooking, earnest appeals have been made to me to plan my
next book for the especial benefit of those who have just begun, or who
are about to begin, to keep house for two or three. The young wives want
to know how to buy supplies for a small family; how to cook economically
and well; what to do with food that is left over from any meal; and
numerous other things pertaining to their daily work. At last I have set
about telling them. They will find that it is not necessary to have an
immense income in order to live well. Strict adherence to careful
instructions will, with a little good