The compleat housewife, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Subtitle: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses : and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and various other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. ... never before made publick; fit either for private families, or such publick spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficient to their poor neighbours
By: by E. Smith
Contributors: Lincoln, Waldo, 1849-1933, former owner; American Antiquarian Society; American Institute of Wine & Food
Edition: The fourteenth edition / to which is now prefixed, directions for marketing.
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, [and 4 others
Published: 1750
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: English Cooking; Early works to 1800; Popular Medicine
Other titles: Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion; Complete housewife
Notes: Signatures: A⁸ a² B-Cc⁸ Dd⁴

Includes index.

ESTC T139022.

Oxford, A.W. Engl. cookery books, 60