The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
- Gervase Markham
- Date:
- 1631
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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