Skip to contentThe Pocumtuc housewife : a guide to domestic cookery as it is practiced in the Connecticut Valley : to which are added plain directions for soap making, brewing, candle dipping, dyeing, clear starching, caring for the sick and all duties of a careful housewife. Especially adapted to the use of young wives who come from outside places and are not conversant with the ways of the valley, and of female orphans who have not had a mother's training | Collections | The Huntington