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The compleat housewife or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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 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 Thing, of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicines 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 Person was disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.

Title: The compleat housewife [electronic resource] : or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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 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 Thing, of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicines 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 Person was disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.
Author: Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
Publication: London : printed for H. Pemberton, at the Golden-Buck, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]

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[20],366,xivp.,plates; 8⁰.

Subject

Cooking, English

Note

A reissue with a cancel titlepage of the thirteenth edition of 1746.
Braces in imprint.
Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

642411594
ECCO1-T139259

Author

Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.

Title

The compleat housewife [electronic resource] : or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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 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 Thing, of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicines 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 Person was disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.

Imprint

London : printed for H. Pemberton, at the Golden-Buck, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]

Edition

The thirteenth edition, with very large additions; ..

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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English Short Title Catalog, T139259.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

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