The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Subtitle: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors
By: By E. Smith
Edition: Collected from the fifth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 5061
Publisher: Printed and sold by William Parks.
Published: 1742
Place of publication: Williamsburg [Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Cooking; Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Popular Medicine
Notes: Two states of gathering X noted. Pages [238-240] contain a printer's advertisement, and the prices for some titles vary in the two states. In one state, the last line of p. [238] is "Price bound three bits." In the other, the last line reads "Price bound 1s. 6d."

Signatures: [A]⁶ B-X⁶.

Error in paging: p. 65 misnumbered 55.

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