The Lady's companion : or, an infallible guide to the fair sex, containing rules, directions, and observations, for their conduct and behaviour through all ages and circumstances of life as virgins, wives, or widows, with directions, how to obtain all Useful and Fashionable Accomplishments suitable to the sex, In which are comprised all parts of Good Housewifery, particularly Rules, and above one thousand different Receipts in every kind of Cookery : to which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year ... also rules and receipts for making all the choicest cordials for the closet ...

Format:

Book

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking.

Women--Conduct of life.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 694 pages, 38 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (woodcuts and engravings).

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Lady's companion

Place of Publication:

Printed for T. Read

Contents:

(from t.p.) 1. Making all sorts of soops and sauces

2. Dressing flesh, fish, and fowl, this last illustrated with cuts ...

3. Making above 50 different sorts of puddings ...

4. The whole art of pastry in making pies, tarts, and pasties

5. Receipts for all manner of pickling, collaring, &c.

6. For preserving making creams, jellies, and all manner of confectionary

7. Rules and directions for setting out dinners, suppers, and grand entertainments.

Notes:

Published in 1737 under title: The Whole duty of a woman.

Signatures: Áþ chi1 B-4Ŕþ 4S(-S4).

Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1113925896