The compleat housewife : or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Person was disorder'd, and the salt Water failed; never before made publick: fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages,354,14 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The tenth edition, with very large additions; ..

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. and H. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, [1741]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The index has separate pagination.

Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T92196.

OCLC:

642739115

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.