Download or read book The Virginia House-wife written by Mary Randolph and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a housekeeping life from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise to impart knowledge to a Tyro compelled me to study the subject and by actual experiment to reduce every thing in the culinary line to proper weights and measures.