The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks &c. : written purely from practice ... : consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print / by Elizabeth Raffald.
- Elizabeth Raffald
- Date:
- 1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks &c. : written purely from practice ... : consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print / by Elizabeth Raffald. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![[ '-ii ] but finding the common fervants generally fo gnorant in dreffing meat, and a good cook fo . hard to be met with, -put me upon ftudying the art of Cookery more than perhaps I otherwife fhould have done; always endeavouring to join i oeconomy with neatnefs and elegance, being ! fenfible what valuable qualifications thefe are in a houfekeeper or cook 3 for of what ufe is their {kill, if they put their mafter or lady to an immoderate icxpence in dreffing a dinner for a fmall company, when at the fame time a prudent manager - would drave dreffed twice the number of diffies for a much ^greater company, at half the coaft. I have given no direflions of cullis, as I have Ifound by experience, that lemon-pickle and Ibrowning anfwers both for beauty and tafte (at a ttrifling expencej better than cullis, which is extra- U'agant; for had I known the ufe and value of uhofe two receipts when I firft took upon me the t>art and duty of a houfekeeper, it would have fav- '-•d me a great deal of trouble in making gravy, and ihofe I ferved a deal ofexpehce. The number of receipts in this book are not fo numerous as in fome others, but they are what i.ill be found ufeful and fufficient for any gen- •eman’s family—neither have I meddled with Ihyfical receipts, leaving them to the phyfician’s iiperior judgement, whofe proper province they rre.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21524610_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
