The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman
As her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented ...
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Author
Publication
1649 - Printed by B. Alsop for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls church-yard, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
63,000 words, Guess
Page Count
252 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL58433470M
- OCLC Control Number82795686
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