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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 Housewifry, particularly rules and above one thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery. 1. Making all Sorts of Soops and Sauces. 2. Dressing Flesh, Fish, and Fowl; this last illustrated with Cuts, shewing how every Fowl, Wild or Tame, is to be trust for the Spit: Likewise all other Kind of Game. 3. Making above 50 different Sorts of Puddings, which are double the Number to be met with in any Book of this Kind. 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. To which is added, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, curiously engraven on Copper Plates, with the Forms of Tables and Dishes, and the Shapes of Pies, Tarts, and Pasties. With Instructions for Marketing. Also Rules and Receipts for making all the choicest Cordials for the Closet: Brewing Beers, Ales, &c. Making all Sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mum, Mead, Metheglin, Vinegar, Verjuice, Catchup, &c. With some fine Persumes, Pomatums, Cosmetick and other Beautifiers.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: And Those the best and most fashionable; Being Four Times the Quantity of any Book of this Sort. I. Making near two Hundred different Sorts of Soops, Pottages, Broths, Sauces, Cullises, &c. after the French, Italian, Dutch, and English Way; also making Cake Soop for the Pocket. II. Dressing Flesh, Fish, and Fowl; this last illustrated with Cuts, shewing how every Fowl is to be truss'd. III. Directions for making Ragoos and Fricaseys. IV. Directions for Dressing all Manner of Kitchen Garden Stuff, &c. V. Making two Hundred different Sorts of Puddings, Florendines, Tanzeys, &c. which are four Times the Number to be met with in any other Book of this Kind. VI. The whole Art of Pastry, in making upwards of two Hundred Pies, (with the Shapes of them engraven on Copper-Plates) Tarts, Pasties, Custards, Cheese-Cakes, Yorkshire Muffins, &c. Vii. Receipts for all Manner of Pick ing, Potting, Collaring, &c. Viii. For Preserving, making Creams, Jellies, and all Manner of Confectionary, with particular Receipts for making Orgeat and Blanc Manger. IX. Rules and Directions for setting out Dinners, Suppers, and grand Entertainments. To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also directions for brewing beers, Ales, &c. making all Sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mum, Metheglin, Vinegar, Verjuice, Catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the Bite of a Mad Dog; the Recipe, sent from Ireland, for the Gout; Sir Hans Sloane's Receipt for Sore Eyes; and the Receipt for making Tar Water.
Date: 1753- Books
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The Country gentleman, farmer and housewife's compendious instructor. Containing; I Gardening; the method of constructing the walls; the nature and manner of making hot-beds and how fruits are to be raised from the same; by what means early fruit may be raised; of hot-walls, and horizontal shelters; an alphabetical list of seeds of roots, cabbage seeds, salled seeds, sweet and pot-herb seeds, medicinal seeds, beans and pease, &c. Directions for cultivating fruit trees; to plant a vineyard; how to make gravel, grase, sand walks, lawns parterres, bosquets, &c. &c. of manure; of watering plants; and, lastly, directions to the gardener. II. The method of raising hops, liquorice and saffron. III. A dictionary of farriery; wherein an account of the diseases incident to horses, and the cures, are to be found. IV. Approved and easy remedies for most disorders. For the use of persons at a distance from regular assistance. Digested in alphabetical order. V. The method of restoreing decayed wines. VI. The manner of making and managing cyder, agreeable to the instructions of Mr. Turner, Mr. Worlidge, and others of known skill. As also, perry, mead and Metheglin. VII. Of malting, brewing, and the way of making mum. VIII. Of baking; wherein the best method of making household bread is laid down; as also, the several sorts of French bread, as the pain burgeois, pain de gonnesse, &c. &c. IX. Distillery, in the plainest manner; in which the the method of making most of the waters and rich cordials is set forth, in the manner recommended by M. de Jean, distiller to his most Christian Majesty, and Mr. Cooper of London. To which is added, by way of appendix, the method of casting shot; a knowledge very useful to persons residing in the remote parts of the kingdom.
Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
Wellcome mead : 105 mead recipes from 17th and 18th century English receipt manuscripts at the Wellcome Library / Laura Angotti.
Angotti, LauraDate: [2019]- Archives and manuscripts
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Sarah Tully, Lady Hoare [and others]: "Book of Receipts for Cookery and Pastry & c"
Sarah Tully, Lady HoareDate: 1732-[?]Reference: MS.8687