A gift to the young housewives of Elena Molokhovets, 1914

A two-volume book by Elena Molokhovets, published in 1914.
The famous book, which caused a wave of imitations, contains a lot of recipes, including vegetarian and lean, teaches how to properly set the table and keep house.

The binding is modern, there are small losses of pages, instead of them, blank sheets of paper were sewn. The blocks are strong. On the pages of natural for a cookbook, used, dirt, fox spots. The gaps are neatly glued together. In the second volume, unfortunately, most of the pages have not been preserved, there are 128 table of contents left. The first volume is missing pages 43-404, 413-414, 417-430, 563-590