The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice .... Consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.].
- Elizabeth Raffald
- Date:
- 1794
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 near nine 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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![. 1 384 tHE EXPERIENCED work both plain and eafy. As to French cooks ] and old experienced boufe-keepers, tiiey have no occafion for my abidance, it is not from them I look for any applaufe. I have not engraved a copper-plate fora third courfe, or a cold colla- tion, for that generally confi(Is of things extra- vagant; but I have endeavoured to let outa deifert of fweetmeats, which the induftrious houfe-keeper may lay up in fummer at a fmall expence, and when added to what little fruit is then in feafon, will make a pretty appearance after the cloth is drawn, and be entertaining to the company. Before you draw your cloth, have all your fweetmeats and fruit difhed up in china difhes or fruit bafkets ; and as many difhes as * you have in one courfe, fo many bafkets or plates yourdefert mu ft have ; and as my bill of fare is twenty-five in each courfe, fo muft your deffert be of the fame number, and fet out in the fame manner, and as ice is very often plen- tiful at that time, it will be eafy to make five different ices for the middle, either to he ferved upon a frame or without, with four plates of dried fruit round them ; apricots, green gages, grapes* and pears—the four outward corners* piftacho nuts, prunelloes, oranges, and olives— the four fquares, nonpareils, pears, walnuts, and filberts—the two in the centre, betwixt the top and bottom, cheftnuts and Portugal plums _ for fix long difhes, pine apples, French plums and the four brandy fruits, which are peaches nectarines, apricots, and cherries. INDEX,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21529668_0404.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
