Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book; designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy
Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book, published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1862 under Catharine Esther Beecher, is a American cookery and household manual of recipes meant for the home kitchen. Its woodcut diagrams show plain utilitarian objects drawn in outline with lettered parts, such as a bread board, a shelf or tray with labelled sides, a folding rack with lettered sections, and a floor plan of a room with circular fixtures, giving designers simple line-drawn technical diagrams to borrow for instructional graphics.
