English housewifery : exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery ... / by Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix containing upwards of eighty receipts ... communicated to the publisher by several gentle women in the neighbourhood .... To this edition is now added an introduction giving an account of the times when river fish are in season; and a table shewing at one view the proper seasons for sea fish.

  • Elizabeth Moxon
Date:
1804
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Credit: English housewifery : exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery ... / by Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix containing upwards of eighty receipts ... communicated to the publisher by several gentle women in the neighbourhood .... To this edition is now added an introduction giving an account of the times when river fish are in season; and a table shewing at one view the proper seasons for sea fish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feeds ; let tliefe fland twelve hours to infufe, then fit ain off the liquor, and put it upon the fame quan- tity of poppies, raifins, liquorice, and annifeeds at before, and let this fland twelve hours to infufe which mud be in a pitcher fet within a pot or pan o: hot water ; then drain it, and take the weight in fugar, and boil it to a fyrup ; when it is cold bottle it. f O OO. To make Black Paper for drawing Patterns. Take a quarter of a pound of mutton fuet, and on< |j ounce of bees wax, melt both together, and put in a li much lamp-black as will colour it dark enough, thei If fpread it over your paper with a rag, and hold it tele the fire to make it fmooth. Is 54. Gooseberry Vinegar another xcay. «, To every gallon of water put fix pounds of rip jt goofeberries ; boil the water and let it be coldp fqueeze the berries, and then pour on the water ; lei® it dand covered three days pretty warm to work-jti ffirring it once a day ; then drain it off, and to ever!in- fix gallons put three pounds of coarfe fugar, let if fland till it has done working, then bung it up an keep it moderately warm ; in nine months it will b ] ready for ufe. 55. 7o make bad Pie into good strong Beer. \k Its r Draw off the ale into a clean veffel (fuppofe half | t,t bogdiead) only leave out eight or ten quarts, to whic I