The English house-vvife
Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
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Author
Publication
Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
63,000 words, Guess
Page Count
252 pages
Physical Format
Microform
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL19414969M
Alternate Titles
- Country contentments, or the English huswife.
- English house-wife.
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Genres
- Early works to 1800
Series Statement
- Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1577:6.
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