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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities. Or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. 1. The art of distilling. 2. Making artificial wines. 3. Making syrups. ... 14 The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour and seemly deportment, &c together with a new accession of many curious things and matters, profitable to the female sex, not published in the former editions.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1696- Books
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese, &c. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Farmer's Wife and Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds in General: Likewise a Variety of receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Madam Johnson's present; or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry purinant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: [1755]- Books
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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]