The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, etc. : written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print : with two plans of a grand table of two covers, and a curious new invented fire stove, wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal / by Elizabeth Raffald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781 12287

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--70375.

Cooking, English.

Physical Description:

iii, 327 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Edition:

12th ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for Thomas Dobson by John Bioren, 1801.

Contents:

Lemon pickle, brownings for all sorts of made dishes, soups, fish, plain meat, game, made dishes both hot and cold, pyes, puddings, &c.

All kinds of confectionary, particularly the gold and silver web for covering of sweetmeats and a dessert of spun sugar, with directions to set out a table in the most elegant manner, and in the modern taste. Floating islands, fish ponds, transparent puddings, trifles, whips, &c.

Pickling, potting and collaring, wines, catchups, distilling, with two most valuable receipts, one for refining malt liquors, the other for curing acid wines, and a correct list of everything in season for every month in the year.

Notes:

Includes index.

Signatures: [A][superscript 4]B- Ee[superscript 6]Ff[superscript 2]Gg[superscript 6].

Local Notes:

3 fold. pl. (frontis defective).

Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.

HSP in LCP.

Recon note: Match points differ: microform record

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 1211.