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Title: Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Seely, Lida, 1854-1928
Subjects: Cookery, American Domestics cbk
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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eat mistake. They are apt to remain idletwo or three weeks, and then are often compelled again to goout of town and amongst strangers. Dont leave garbage in the pantry from one meal to another.Always keep the sink and pantry clean. Dont upset the cook by telling her what the family sayabout her cooking. Leave that for the mistress. If there isany fault to be found it is not so apt to cause trouble if it goesdirect to the cook from her mistress. Dont forget when meats, turkey, and game are served, thatsauce or gravy, also the jelly, such as cranberry jelly, etc.,should be served before the vegetables. Dont, when you are cleaning rooms, forget your dusters,broom, and other articles. Look around before you leave theroom and take them with you. It is not pleasant to trip oversuch things. Dont forget to clean the finger marks from paint when youare cleaning rooms. Dont forget to clean the bed-springs; they should becleaned twice a month. Bedroom closets should also becleaned twice a month.
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CHAPTER VIITHE SERVANTS HALL In large households there is a hall, or dining room, for theservants. This room should be so arranged that it can be usedfor a general sitting room in the evening. It is taken care ofby the kitchen maid. In some houses the servants have alsothe use of the front basement as a sitting room. Again in manyplaces they are expected to eat in the kitchen and to use a partof it for a sitting room. Very few of the old downtown houses have the advantageof wholesome and sufficient servants quarters, but in the newerdwellings the architects and owners seem to recognize the factthat the little company, which is to keep the great house cleanand sanitary, cannot be clean or well in its different memberswithout sufficient room and appliances for keeping clean. The general government of the servants hall rests with thebutler and the cook. Each servant has a right to some time off duty, and to sometime out of the house. The common rule in regard to returnin the evening is t

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