10 Questionable Household Tips from the 19th-Century White House Staff
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a big place , and understandably the upkeep is a small more complicated than that of any distinctive suburban home . That ’s why Fanny Lemira Gillette , famed housekeeping guru and mother of the inventor of the condom razor , and Hugo Ziemann , the White House steward , teamed up in 1887 to writeThe White House Cook Book , a " comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home " and one of the best - selling cookery book in U....