The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.].

  • Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.
Date:
1786
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Credit: The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.]. 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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    t « ] at the expence of my health, by being to«i ftiidious, and giving too clofe application. The only anxious wifh I have left is, that my worthy friends may find it ufeful in their families, and bean inftrudtor to the young and ignorant as it has been my chiefefl: care to write in as plain aftileas poffible, fo as to be under- flood by the weakefl capacity* I am not afraid of being called extravagant, if my reader does not think that I have erred on the frugal hand. I have made it my fiudy to pleafe both the eye and the palate, without ufing pernicious things for the fake of beauty. ' And though I have given fome of my difhes French names as they are only known by thofe names, yet they will not be found very expenfive, nor add compofitions but as plain as the nature of the difh will admit of. The receipts for the confedionary are fuch as I daily fell in my own fhop, which any Lady may examine at pleafure, as I flill continue my befl endeavours to give fatisfadion to all who are pleafed to favour me with their cuflom. It may be neceffary to inform my readers, that I have fpent fifteen years in great and worthy families, in the capacity of a houfe- keeper, and had an opportunity of travelling with them ; but finding the common fervants generally fo ignorant in dreffing meat, and a good cook fo hard to be met with, put me upon fludying the art of cookery, more than perhaps I other- 1