The complete Indian housekeeper and cook: giving the duties of mistress and servants, the general management of the house and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches

About this book

For households in India, Grace Gardiner’s manual combines guidance on domestic management with cookery, explaining the mistress’s and staff’s responsibilities. Among its practical directions are ways to deter ants from furniture and clean or restore brass. On infant feeding, it stresses clean bottles and careful milk handling, with advice shaped around a household that employs an ayah. In the recipes, hashed mutton is made with substantial pieces warmed in seasoned broth, rather than thin shreds cooked until tough.