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, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams. Preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing. 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 receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use. With directions for marketing. By E. Smith

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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, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams. Preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing. 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 receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use. With directions for marketing. By E. Smith
  • Accomplished gentlewoman's companion
  • Compleat housewife
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Imprint
London : printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, and C. and R. Ware, 1773. The eighteenth edition, with additions.; ..
Added name
Buckland, James, 1710 or 1711-1790, bookseller.; Hinton, John, -1781, bookseller.; Johnston, W. (William), -1804, bookseller.; Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.; Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797, bookseller.; Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798, bookseller.; Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784, bookseller.; Bladon, Samuel, -1799, bookseller.; Nicoll, W. (William), active 1761-1792, bookseller. ; J. and F. Rivington (Firm), bookseller.; Hawes, Clarke and Collins, bookseller.; Catherine and Richard Ware (London, England), bookseller.
Publication year
1773
ESTC No.
T141373
Grub Street ID
188912
Description
[40], 400 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8°.
Note
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials; woodcut factotum

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