The British jewel, or, Complete housewife's best companion
Subtitle: containing ... and a choice variety of useful family receipts together with a method of restoring to life people drowned ... also, the complete farrier, being the method of buying, selling, managing, &c. and of the diseases incident to horses with their cures : to which is added the royal gardener, or monthly calendar.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Miller ...
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Home economics -- Early works to 1800; Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800; Recipes -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: British jewel; Complete housewife's best companion
Notes: Signatures: A-I⁶.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. A number of the most uncommon and useful receipts in cookery, with the manner of trussing poultry, rabbits, hares, &c., illustrated with curious cuts, shewing how each is to be trussed; title: II. The best and most fashionable receipts for all manner of pastry, pickling, &c., with some general rules to be observed therein; title: III. Directions for making all sorts of English wines, shrub, vineger, verjuice, catchup, sauces, soups, jellies, &c.; title: IV. A table to cast up expences by the day, week, month, or year; title: V. Every man his own physician, a valuable collection of the most approved receipts for the cure of most disorders ...; title: VI. The manner of preparing the elixir of life, Turlington's balsam, friar's balsam ...; title: VII. Directions for destroying rats, mice, bugs, fleas, &c.