Home Comforts

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"Home Comforts". A popular wartime book of household hints, first published in 1855 under the pen name of Lillie Savery (real name unknown). It described the perfect family of Mrs. Savery, an economic, ingenious, and industrious homemaker. The family of four seems to have survived on pennies, with Mrs. Savery baking a cake for 3 cents and fashioning her shoes out of old soles and pantaloons. The book was known in the South, where it should have been welcomed during the blockade.

From 'The Language of the Civil War" John D. Wright page 147.
 
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