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Cooking - Early works to 1800
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A good huswifes handmaide for the kitchin : Containing manie principall pointes of cookerie, aswell how to dresse meates, after sundrie the best fashions vsed in England and other countries, with their apt and proper sawces, both for flesh and fish, as also the orderly seruing of the same to the table. Hereunto are annexed, sundrie necessarie conceits for the preseruation of health. Verie meete to be adioned to the good huswifes closet of prouision for her houshold.
Date: 1594- Books
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The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented to the Queen / by the most experienc'd persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
Date: 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The art of cookery refin'd and augmented : containing an abstract of some rare and rich unpublished receipts of cookery / collected from the practise of that incomparable master of these arts, Mr. Jos. Cooper, chiefe cook to the late king ; with severall other practises by the author ; with an addition of preserves, conserves, &c., offering an infallible delight to all judicious readers.
Cooper, Joseph, chiefe cook to the late kingDate: 1654- Books
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any sort of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685