The compleat housewife
Subtitle: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion, 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 before made publick ; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours
By: By E- S-
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Printed for J. Pemberton
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Early works to 1800; English Cooking; Formulas, recipes
Other titles: Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Notes: ESTC, T167156

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