The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles ... to which is added a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E-----S----- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E., cook.
Date:
1730
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Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles ... to which is added a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E-----S----- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ae RE ae Aoi, jirft and the laft, which proceeded from the Struggles of Nature, which abborred the Diffolution of Soul and Body; no Phyficians to preftribe for the Sick, nor no Apotheca~ ries to compound Medicines fir two thou- Jfand Tears and upwards. Food and Phy- fick were then one and the fame thing. BOT when Men began to pafs from a Vegetable to au Animal Diet, and feed on Filefb, Fowls, and Fifb, then Seafonings grew neceffary, both to render it more pala- table and favoury, and alfo to preferve that Part which was uot immediately {pent frou Stinking and Corruption: And probably Salt was the firft Seafoning difcover’d; for of Salt we read, Gen. xiv. . AND this feems to be neceffary, efpe- cially for thofe who were advanced in Age, whofe Palates, with their Bodies, had loft their Vigour as toTafte, whofe digeftzve Fa- culty grew weak and impotent, and thence proceeded the ‘Vfe of Scoops and favoury Meffes; fo that Cookery then began to be- come a Science, though Luxury had not brought it to the height of an Art. Thus we read, that Jacob made {uch palatable Pot- tage, that Efau purchafed a Mefs of it at the extravagant Price of his Birthright. And Maac, before by his Laff Will and Leftament he bequeathed his Bleffing to bis ' | | A 3 | Son