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 ... / by Elizabeth Raffald.

  • Elizabeth Raffald
Date:
1787
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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 ... / 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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    t. ili ] i otherwife fhould have done ; always endeavour- ing to join oeconomy with neatnels and elegance, being fenfible what valuable qualifications thcie are in a houfekeeper or cook ; for of what ufe is their (kill, if they put their matter or lady to an immoderate expence in drefling a dinner for a final 1 company, when at the fame time a prudent manager would have dieffed twice the number of difhes for a much greatei 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 expence) better than cullis, which is extravagant; for had I known the ufe and value of thofe two receipts when I firft took upon me the part and duty of a houfekeeper, it would have faved me a great deal of trouble in making gravy, and thofe I ferved a deal of expence. The number of receipts in this book are 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 phyttcal receipts, leaving them to the phyficians fuperior judgement, whole proper province they are. Defcription
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