The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page.

  • Chambers, Amelia
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[1800?]
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Credit: The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    xiex-t the cork, left the bottle (hould burft, or the cork fly, and if you happen to hear the air buriling through the porous parts of the corks, take them out for a few minutes, and then they may be put in with fafety. In .the fummer let the bottles be placed in as cold a part of the cellar as you can find, but in winter, they mull be covered over with ftraw, and if the cyder fhould happen to grow four, put to it a little loaf lugar. . To make the heji of Perry. Take as many rip« pears as you intend to make li- quor, and mix with them a few crabs, then let the whole be properly malhed together, until the liquor ap- pears, which mutt be ftrained through a cloth, or very fine fieve, then put to it a little yeaft, and when it has worked three days, let it be drawn into another veflel, in which it mult Hand ten days, when it will be ready to be bottled off for ufe. To make Mum in the left Manner. Boil a hogfhead of water until it is reduced to two thirds; put to it fevcn bulhels of wheat flour, one bufliel of oat-meal, and a buihel of beans; then mix with it a handful of alder leaves, with three ounces of bar- ber] ies ; put to it a little yeaft, and when it has worked itfelf from all impurities, let it be drawn off and flop- ped up clofe in another calk, with half a dozen eggs mixed with it. . It mull be kept in the calk two yrears, then it will be fit for ufei To make Mead. Put the white of three eggs into fix gallons of water ; when they are properly mixed, put to them eight pounds of the bell honey ; when they have boiled ah hour, put to them a little cinnamon, mace, and cloves; let it Hand till it cools, and then put to it half a pint of good yeaft ; when it has worked three days, let it be drawn into another veflel, and Hopped clofe up for a month, when it will be fit for ufe, and may be bottled off.