The Housewife's Blue Book

1905 · 40 pages

Housewife's Bluebook This is a comprehensive home entertaining guide and tableware catalog from the Parmelee-Dohrmann Company, a Southwest ceramics and glassware merchant operating for over twenty-five years. Rather than a fiction pulp magazine, it functions as an instructional reference work on formal table service. The volume covers practical and aesthetic guidance on table settings across breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and tea service, with detailed specifications for appropriate china, glassware, and silverware for each occasion. It itemizes breakfast essentials including egg cups, toast racks, and wheat cake sets; luncheon pieces such as bouillon cups and sandwich trays; and formal dinner service progressing through seven courses—oyster, soup, fish, entrée, roast, asparagus, and game—with recommended accompanying wines graded from mild to premium vintages. Throughout, the text emphasizes selecting quality ceramics and proper arrangement, advocating patronage of established merchants with genuine ceramic knowledge. Decorative advice addresses table linens, flowers, candelabra placement, and napkin presentation for creating elegant domestic hospitality.

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