Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook

''an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire'' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice to young memsahibs in India. They explain how to ''make a hold'' over servants, how to establish and stock a storeroom, how to pla...