It is a working cookbook that gathers together more than 500 mouth-watering recipes, from soup to nuts. It is also an intimate autobiography of a charming and adventuresome woman whose enthsiasm has given her the vitality to rear 3 children, manage 3 homes and develop a mulitmillion dollar business. .....and finally, it is a valuable treasury of early recipes from Mrs. Rudkins fabulous collection of antique cookbooks which she has updated with her own modern present-day ready to use translations. It was the first cookbook ever to make the bestseller list of The New York Times.

    Dark green, blue, red, or bright yellow washable cover with four round food photos making up the letters in cook book; contents of all books, no matter the cover color are identical. Inside front cover has illustrations of spices and their origins. Excellent thick and thorough, heirloom quality cookbook. This was reprinted many times, cover colors may vary, but the contents are the same whether you need the 1st printing or the 21st printing.

    Illustrated in pen-and-ink and many black-and-white photographs. Complete recipe section at the end of the book qualifies this book for listing as a cook book.

    

    Here is aid and comfort for all who secretly or openly hate housekeeping chores. Among the very useful and funny contents are: "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There", "Stains, Spots, Blots, Scars, and Dueling Wounds", "How to Be Tightfisted without Having It Show", "The Hostess with the Leastest", and "How to Be Happy When You're Miserable". There are hundreds of sensible suggestions on house cleaning, handling of electrical equipment, care of clothes, and entertaining. She even includes hints on household chores that don't need to be done at all, if you're careful. Among the original and practical ideas she offers are the household "clutter deposit"; the Useful Box, Instant Housekeeping. Housekeepers of every variety will find this book as much fun to read as to follow. Included too are more uncomplicated recipes and Hilary Knight's inimitable drawings.