The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice ... Consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.].
- Elizabeth Raffald
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice ... Consisting of several 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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![[ H ] at the expence of my health, by being too lludious, 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 be an inftrudlor to the young and ignorant as it has been my chiefeft care to write in as plain a ftile as 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 fludy 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 diflies 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 difli will admit of. The receipts for the confedlionary are fuch as I daily fell in my own ihop, which any Lady may examine at pleafure, as I ftill continue my beil endeavours to give fatisfaftion 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 drefling meat, and a good cook fohard to be met with, put me upon ftudying the art of cookerv, more than perhaps I other-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21532059_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
