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

  • Elizabeth Raffald
Date:
1808
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Credit: The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c., written purely from practice; dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper. 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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    [ vli ] and elegance ; being fenfible what valuable qua- lifications thefe are in a houfekeeper or cook ; for what ufe is their fkill, if they put their mafter or lady to an immoderate expenfe in drefling a dinner for a fmall company, when at the fame time a prudent manager would have drelTed twice the number of difhes for a much greater company, at half the coft. I have given no directions of cullis, as I have found, by experience, that lemon-pickle and browning anfwers both for beauty and tafte (at a trifling expenfe) better than cullis, which is extravagant; for had I known the ufe and value of thefe two receipts when I firft took upon me the part and duty of a houfe- keeper, it would have faved me a great deal of trouble in making gravy, and thofe I ferved a deal of expenfe. The number of receipts in this book is not fo numerous as in fome others, but they are what will be found ufeful and fufficient for any gentleman’s family—neither have I meddled with phyfica% receipts, leaving them to the phyficians’ fuperior judgment, whofe proper province they are.
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