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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 / With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines. By E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery / With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines. By E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Compleat HOUSEWIFE: O R, AccomplijBd Gentlewoman s COMPANION: Being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the moft approved Receipts in Cookery, I Cakes, Pastry, Creams, Confectionary, Jellies, Preserving, Made Wines, Pickles, Cordials. With Copper Plates curioufly engraven for the regular Difpolition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. AND ALSO BILLS of F A R E for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Two Hundred Family Receipts of M E D IC IN E S ; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of fovereign and approved Efficacy in moft Diftempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick ; fit either for private Families, or fuch publick fpirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their pOorNeighbours. m < By E. SMITH. ‘the Sixth Edition, with very large Additions; near Fifty Receipts being communicatedjujl before the Author's Death. LONDON: Printed for]. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck} over-again ft St. Dunftan's Church in Fleetflreet. 1734. Price Five Shillings. . . . ,— .... —--— .—■