The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven 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 of the various Dishes and Courses. And Also, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three 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. particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water failed; never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public-spirite

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  • The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven 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 of the various Dishes and Courses. And Also, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three 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. particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water failed; never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public-spirite
  • Compleat housewife
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London : printed for J. Buckland, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Rivington, T. Lowndes, C. and R. Ware, S. Bladon, and W. Nicoll, 1766. The seventeenth edition, with additions.; ..
Publication year
1766
ESTC No.
T129366
Grub Street ID
178826
Description
[14],364,[16]p.,plate ; 8°.
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1969 binding has 3 blank leaves inserted after t/p. Imp?. - AWn report frontis and 4 numbered plates