The compleat housewife
Subtitle: or, Accomplish'd gentle-woman's companion; a bibliographical study
By: by Genevieve Yost
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Williamsburg, Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: English Cooking; Cooking
Notes: Cover title.

"Reprinted from William and Mary College quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, October, 1938."

"The first cookbook published in colonial America." - p. 420.

With facsimile of original t. p.: The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: 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 of the year. To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... By E. Smith. Collected from the fifth edition. Williamsburg: Printed and sold by William Parks. 1742.

Bibliographical footnotes.