The compleat housewife : or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five 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 two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, [and various] other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most [dist]empers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. [never] before made publick; fit either for private families, or [...] publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to [their] poor neighbours. By E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Popular.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([16],352,xv,[1]p.,plates )

Edition:

The seventh edition, with very large additions; near fifty [...] put before the author's death.

Other Title:

Compleat housewife

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. and J. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1736.

Notes:

Price at foot of title: Price six shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T139021.

OCLC:

642410861