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Abstract
The present edition of Catharine Parr Traill's The Female Emigrant's Guide, with the subtitle Cooking with a Canadian Classic, is based on the first edition, which was released in 1855 but carries the publication date of 1854.It reproduces the text in the "second thousand" printing, but has been re-set for ease of reading as well as for efficient use of space on the page.Ease of reading also prompted our decision to use the typeface Filosofia.The original text was altered as little as possible: where clarification or explanation was necessary, rather than modify the text, we chose to either insert the information within parentheses or add a footnote.References to the Guide in our accompanying essays and glossaries are indicated by square brackets within the text.Thus, for example, [100] refers to page 100 of this new edition.Every effort has been made to produce a text that respects Traill's voice and prose.In order to give readers a sense of the original book, we reproduce three facsimile pages (figs 8, 10, and 11).The pages appear in their original dimensions.We also reproduce some of the images in the original edition: clearing the land (fig.9), Indian rice (fig.12), a settler family undertaking their annual harvest of maple syrup and sugar (fig.13), provincial division diagram (fig.14), a diagram of the Canadian "side line" (fig.15), and children in a sleigh (fig.16).In the 1880s, Traill revisited the Guide with an eye to producing another, updated volume, although this was never published.Three facsimile pages from this second manuscript are reproduced here, to suggest how Traill's thinking had changed in the thirty or so years since she first drafted the Guide.These three pages refer to recipes involving baking powder (fig.5), cakes (fig.6), and tomato catsup (fig.7).The numbers stamped in the top right corner indicate that they are part of the Traill Family Collection at Library and Archives Canada.Since we concentrate on the culinary content and context of the Guide, we have not attempted to identify sources for Traill's many quotations from poems, plays, and Bible verses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.538 | 0.551 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".