English housewifery, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various sorts of soups, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, &c. With cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial, and splendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, contaning upwards of seventy receips, of the most valuable kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the publisher by several gentlewomen in the neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary skill in housewifery. To this edition is now added, an introduction, giving an account of the times when river

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• English housewifery, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various sorts of soups, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, &c. With cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial, and splendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, contaning upwards of seventy receips, of the most valuable kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the publisher by several gentlewomen in the neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary skill in housewifery. To this edition is now added, an introduction, giving an account of the times when river
• English housewifry

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• Elizabeth Moxon (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and H. Mozley, Gainsbr..., M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789] The thirteenth edition. corrected.; ..

Publication year

1789

ESTC No.

T229921

Grub Street ID

249743

Description

viii,203,[1],33,[17]p.,plates ; 12°.

Note

The appendix has separate titlepage and pagination, and is entitled 'English housewifery improved; or, a supplement to Moxon's cookery. ... The fifth edition'.