The compleat housewife, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Subtitle: being a collection of upwards of five 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 qefore [sic] made publick : fit either for private families, or such publick spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours
By: by E. Smith
Contributors: Pemberton, John, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: Fifth edition, with very large additions : near fifty receipts being communicated just before the author's death.
Publisher: Printed for J. Pemberton ...
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Cooking; Early works to 1800; Herbs; Therapeutic use; Popular Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine
Other titles: Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Notes: Signatures: A-2A⁸.

Title within double rule.

Engraved charts of menu suggestions.

Head-pieces; initials.

With two final advertisement leaves.

Includes index.

English short title catalogue, N16070

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.