Victorian Pride series of books

This wonderful book is a reprint of "Our Own Book" first published in 1888 and distributed to subscribers of the Elmira, New York Weekly Gazette and Free Press.

Over 600 Victorian era food recipes including Cottage Pie, Boiled Bullock's Head, Leg of Mutton, Economical Veal Soup, Beef Balls, Frizzled Beef, Knuckle of Veal, Brooklyn Cake, Good Girl's Cake, Railroad Cake, Floating Island, MInt Vinegar, Isinglass Jelly, Gruel, Calf's Foot Jelly, Invalid Apple Pie, Boston Baked Beans, Hasty Pudding, Flannel Cakes, Queen Pudding, and Fried Mush.

Homespun medicinal remedies for aphthae, catarrh, boils, consumption, galling, snuffles, worms, cholera morbus, the chilblains, croup, dyspepsia, dropsy, whitlow, palsy, salt-rheum, scrofula, scurvy, strangury, "the itch," and more. Recipes to make your own "medicines" including worm elixer, paregoric, lozengers, sanative, tooth-ache paste, stomach plaster,

Bathing - "For cleanliness and comfort, a warm bath may be taken once a week, or once a fortnight at least...for special purposes one may be taken daily for a time, or twice or thrice a week, but the practice must not degenerate into such frequency....."

Make your own barn paint, indelible ink, ginger beer, shaving soap, waterproof glue, cologne, violin varnish, and more.

Lessons in etiquette - letter writing, how to address a lady, and rules of conversation.

Choosing a husband or wife - how to attract a man with choice of hat, dress, and hair styles. "How to treat a wife - A kind, consoling, and tender look, will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom."

Fashion and style - "The best rule for both sexes, is to dress so that no one can remember what you work or anything about it, except the generally pleasing effect."