The Health Reformer's Cook Book
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Once life and culture had stabilized in the 19th century and moved beyond the frontier focus on subsistence and survival, Americans began to explore the idea of improving health and creating more comfortable lifestyles. Health reform in the late 19th century emerged from the idea that a healthy body and practicing moderation in daily living were necessary to a spiritual, meaningful existence. From these ideas, the vegetarian philosophy was codified, and The Health Reformer’s Cook Book embraced trends that still have significance today.
As stated in the book, it’s “object is to restore the sick to health by means of . . . pure air, pure water, sun-light, sleep, proper clothing, judicious exercise, healthful food, pleasant social influences, &c., excluding all poisonous drugs.” The Health Reformer’s Cook Book is based on the methods and beliefs that Jackson and her husband actually employed at a health facility founded by her husband. Following the health reform ideals of the time, Jackson included recipes to limit excessive eating and following a vegetarian diet focused on simple meals of fruits, vegetables, and grains—all trends that still resonant with health experts today. This edition of The Health Reformer’s Cook Book was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. The Society collects, preserves, and makes available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.Related to The Health Reformer's Cook Book
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The Health Reformer's Cook Book - Lucretia Jackson
This edition of The Health Reformer's Cook Book by Lucretia E. Jackson was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. AAS aims to collect, preserve, and make available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.
OTHER BOOKS IN
THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
COOKBOOK COLLECTION
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American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons
The American Family Keepsake, by The Good Samaritan
Apician Morsels, by Dick Humelbergius Secundus
The Art of Dining, and the Art of Attaining High Health, by Thomas Walker
California Recipe Book, by Ladies of California
The Canadian Housewife’s Manual of Cookery
Canoe and Camp Cookery, by Seneca
The Compleat Housewife, by Eliza Smith
Confederate Receipt Book
The Cook Not Mad
The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register, by Mrs. N.K.M. Lee
Cottage Economy, by William Cobbett
Dainty Dishes, by Lady Harriet E. St. Clair
Dairying Exemplified, by Josiah Twamley
De Witt's Connecticut Cook Book, and Housekeeper's Assistant, by Mrs. N. Orr
Every Lady's Cook Book, Mrs. T.J. Crowen
Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six, by Juliet Corson
The Frugal Housewife, by Susannah Carter
The Hand-Book of Carving
The Housekeeper’s Manual
How to Mix Drinks, by Jerry Thomas
Jewish Cookery Book, by Esther Levy
Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book, by Eliza Leslie
Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book, by W. A. Henderson
Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book, by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
Mrs. Owen’s Illinois Cook Book, by Mrs. T.J.V. Owens
Mrs. Porter’s New Southern Cookery Book, by Mrs. M.E. Porter
The New Housekeeper’s Manual, by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
The New England Cook Book
The Practical Distiller, by John Wyeth
The Physiology of Taste, by Jean A. Brillat-Savarin
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, by Eliza Leslie
The Times’ Recipes, by The New York Times
A Treatise on Bread, by Sylvester Graham
Vegetable Diet, by William Alcott
The Virginia Housewife, by Mary Randolph
What to Do with the Cold Mutton
The Young Housekeeper, by William Alcott
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Is a Health, or Hygienic Institution, located In Dansville, Livingston Co., N. Y. It's object is to restore the sick to health by means of the agencies provided by God for the preservation of health, such as pure air, pure water, sun-light, sleep, proper clothing, judicious exercise, healthful food, pleasant social influences, &c, excluding all poisonous drugs, and all other means and agencies, which in their nature tend to injure persons in health if used by them; and also to so instruct them in regard to the Laws of Life, and Health, as that they may not again be liable to take on the diseases which are every where so prevalent, and which to a very great degree, are the result of false habits of living. It Is also a place much resorted to by persons who are not sick, but who desire to become familiar with the philosophy of life taught here, that they may regulate their households upon a plan, which is in accordance with the laws of the human organization, and thus preserve them In the enjoyment of good health.
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The physician-in-chief of Our Home is