The compleat housewife, 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 beneficient to their poor neighbours
The sixth edition, with very large additions / near fifty receipts being communicated just before the author's death.
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Publication
1734 - Printed for J. Pemberton, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL58416938M
- OCLC Control Number4838422
Classifications
- LCCTX705 .S535 1734
Alternate Titles
- Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
- Complete housewife
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