The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Date:
1739
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Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which proceeded from the Struggles of. Na¬ ture, which abhor Td the cDiJfolut ion of Soul and Body; no \Fhyficians to prefcribe for the Sick, nor no Apothecaries to compound Medi¬ cines for two Thoufand Tears and upwards ; Food and Fhyfick were then one and the fame BUT when Men began to pafs from a Vegetable to an Animal T)iet, and feed on Flejh, Fowls and Fijh, then Seafonings grew neceffary, both to render it more palatable f and favoury, and alfo to preferve that Fart which was not immediately fpent, from [link¬ ing and Corruption ; and probably Salt was the fir ft Seafoning dijcovered; for of Salt we read\ Gen. xiv. ANT) this feems to be neceffary, efipe- dally for t ho fie who were advanced in Age, whofie Fabates, i^/VZ? Bodies, ZW Vigor as to Tafie, whofe digefiive Fa¬ culty grew weak and impotent ; thence proceeded the Fife of Soops and favoury Me fi¬ fes ; fio that Cookery then began to be¬ come a Science, though Luxury ZW brought it to the Height of an AR T\ Thus we read, Jacob /?/cZ? palatable Fottage, that Efau purchafed a Mefis of it at the extravagant Trice of his Birth-right0 And Ifaac, before by his lafi Will and Tefia- ment he bequeathed his Blejfing to his Son A 3
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