Frugality: A Habit for the Steward

Posted By Sarah Lytle on Oct 9, 2024

by Sarah Lytle Lydia Maria Child called extravagance “the prevailing evil of the present day” in 1828.[1] Her book The American Frugal Housewife taught families how to live within their means. After reading that book, I began to consider the relationship between frugality, as Lydia Maria Child named it, and Biblical stewardship. Over the past few years, I have become interested in nineteenth-century cookbooks and other books written...