The lady's companion : or, an infallible guide to the fair sex. Containing, observations for their conduct thro' all ages and circumstances of life: in which are comprised all parts of good housewifry, particularly rules, and above two thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery. I. Making all sorts of soops and sauces. II. Dressing flesh, fish, and fowl; this last illustrated with cuts, shewing how every fowl, &c. is to be truss'd for the spit. III. Making 100 different sorts of puddings. IV. The whole art of pastry, in making pies, tarts, &c. V. Receipts for pickling, collaring, potting, &c. VI. For preserving, making creams, jellies, and all manner of confectionary. Vii. Rules and directions for setting out dinners, suppers, and grand entertainments. To which is added, several bills of fare for every month in the year, and the shapes of pies, tarts, and pasties. With instructions for marketing. Also receipts for making the choicest cordials for the closet: brewing beers, ales, &c. Making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, mead, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. Some fine perfumes, pomatums, cosmeticks, and other beautifiers. With 300 valuable receipts in physick...

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Whole duty of a woman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Brewing--Early works to 1800.

Brewing.

Beauty, Personal--Early works to 1800.

Beauty, Personal.

Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Popular.

Canning and preserving--Early works to 1800.

Canning and preserving.

Genre:

Cookbooks -- England -- 18th century.

Manuals (Handbooks) -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

2v., plates : illustrations ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fourth edition, with large additions.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryers, Fleet-Street, MDCCXLIII. [1743]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

First published in 1737 as "The whole duty of a woman".

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 National Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N19120.

OCLC:

642157323

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.