The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy.

  • Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. Tiie Collection of Domestic Receipts now presented to the public could not have been formed in any age but the present. The wisdom of this age has been to bring science from her heights down to the practical knowledge of every-day concerns; and the number of its in- ventions and discoveries have kept pace with the increasing wants of man. Of the past we preserve what experience has sanctioned, and what improvement has rendered more perfect; but we can add much more from our own stores. Scientific men, in the present day, who choose to be useful as well as celebrated, have studiously noticed facts, and formed discoveries, which can only be appreciated in the domestic circle; they