The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts ... ; 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 ... ; with directions for marketing / by E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E., cook.
Date:
1773
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts ... ; 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 ... ; with directions for marketing / by E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OVP | Ree ore iM San! - ie Ar >] P +2 Fruits and Garpen Stvers in Seafon: horfe-radifh, cucumbers, crefles, fome tarragon, onions, gar lic, rocamboles, melons, and cucumbers for pickling. _ Goofberries, rafpberries, currants, grapes, figs, mulberries. and filberts, apples, the Windfor fovereign, orange burgamot fliper, red Catharine, king Catharine, penny-pruffian, fummer poppening, fugar and louding pears. ‘Crown Bourdeaux, lavur, difput, favoy and wallacotta peaches; the muroy, tawny, red Roman, little green clufter, and yellow nectarines, Imperial blue dates, yellow late pear, black pear, white nut- meg late pear, great Antony or Turkey and Jane plumbs. lufter, mufcadin; and Srnelian grapes. In September. GARDEN and fome kidney-beans, roncival peafe, arti- chokes, radifhes, cauliflowers, cabbage-lettuce, crefles, chervil, onions, tarragon, burnet, celery, endive, mufhrooms, carrots, turnips, fkirrets, beets, {corzonera, horfe-radifh, garlic, efcha- lots, rocambole, cabbage and their fprouts, with favoys, which Peaches, grapes, figs, pears, plumbs,-walnuts, filberts, al~ monds, quinces, melons, and cucumbers. In Oéober. SOME cauliflowers, artichokes, peafe, beans, cucumbers, ‘and melons; alfo July fown kidney-beans, turnips, carrots, parfnips, potatoes, {kirrets, fcorzonera, beets, onions, garlic, efchalots, rocambole, chardones, creffes, chervile, muftard, raddifh, rape, fpinach, lettuce fmall and cabbaged, burnet, tar- ragon, blanched celery and endive, late peaches and plumbs, grapes and figs. Mulberries, filberts, and walnuts. “The bul- lace, pines, and arbuters ; and great variety of apples and pears. In November. 3 CAULIFLOWERS in the ereen-houfe, and fome arti- chokes, carrots, parfnips, turneps, beets, fkirrets, fcorzonera, horfe-radifh, potatoes, onions, garlic, efchalots, rocambole, celery, parfley, forrel, thyme, favoury, {weet-marjoram dry, and clary cabbages and their fprouts, favoy-cabbage, {pinach, late cucumbers. Hot herbs on the hot-bed, burnet, cabbage, lettuce, endive blanched ; feveral forts of apples and pears. . Some bullaces, medlars, arbutas, walnuts, hazel nuts, and a . In