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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. A 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, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, 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 Fish are in Season; and a Table, shewing at one View the proper Seasons for Sea Fish.

Title
English housewifery, [electronic resource] : 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. A 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, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, 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 Fish are in Season; and a Table, shewing at one View the proper Seasons for Sea Fish.
Author
Moxon, Elizabeth.
Publication
Leeds : printed by Thomas Wright, for William Fawdington; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker , Ave-Mary Lane ; William Bent, Pater-Noster-Row, London ; and by most Booksellers in Great Britain, 1785.

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viii,5-203,[1]p.,plates; 12⁰.
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  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog,
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
642220979
Author
Moxon, Elizabeth.
Title
English housewifery, [electronic resource] : 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. A 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, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, 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 Fish are in Season; and a Table, shewing at one View the proper Seasons for Sea Fish.
Imprint
Leeds : printed by Thomas Wright, for William Fawdington; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker , Ave-Mary Lane ; William Bent, Pater-Noster-Row, London ; and by most Booksellers in Great Britain, 1785.
Edition
The twelfth edition, corrected.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, N6986.
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Place of Publication
Great Britain England Leeds.
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