The compleat housewife, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companionbeing 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 beneficient to their poor neighboursThe sixth edition, with very large additions / near fifty receipts being communicated just before the author's death.
Printed for J. Pemberton1734-01-01
