The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines-of all sorts. Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of butt[e]r and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other [u]seful Branches belonging to a Country-Seat, in the most elegant manner for the Table. Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces. The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year. With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],vii-xi,[1],187,[9]p.,plate )

Edition:

The sixth edition. With additions.

Other Title:

Country housewife and lady's director,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and T. Woodman, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]

Notes:

With an index.

The titlepage is a cancel.

The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.

This 'sixth edition' was reissued in 1736 with a different imprint.

Price from imprint: price 2s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T34241.

OCLC:

642573309