A committee of ladies collected the receipts; the editor of the Manual of Domestic Economy arranged them — British cookery and household management, c.1864.

Weekly Expenses

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Weekly Expenses

1251. The calculation of the weekly expenses is readily made from the above table of annual expenditure by dividing each item by 52. Of…

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