A 1772 cookbook, The Frugal Housewife, contained an entire chapter on the topic.

Susannah Carter, the author of book The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook was first published in 1765 in Dublin, and was first reprinted in North America in 1772 by Edes and Gill illustrated with prints made by Paul Revere.

The first mention of clam chowder was in the bestselling American Frugal Housewife (1832) and by the mid-1800s, it was a firm favourite on the eastern seaboard.

Though it does not appear in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery in the late 18th century, it is found in Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife, indicating that sponge cakes had been established at Grenada in the Caribbean, by the early 19th century.

The 1832 edition of the American Frugal Housewife said that "nothing was better than earwax to prevent the painful effects resulting from a wound by a nail [or] skewer"; and also recommended earwax as a remedy for cracked lips.

The first book they published under the new program was The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child.

So English that entire chapters were "borrowed" from The Frugal Housewife by Susannah Carter, which appeared in American editions in 1772 and 1792, and yet so very American in her use of those elements.

After passing through several American editions, the book was republished by Lydia Maria Child in 1832 as The American Frugal Housewife.

There are chatty, well-informed costumed interpreters who spin, feed the animals and make Indian pudding or other open-hearth recipes from "The Frugal Housewife," a stern how-to published in 1833.