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

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Date:
1758
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Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... receipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fome favoury Meat, fucb as his Soul loved', i. e. fuch as was relijhable to his blunted Appetite. S O that Seafonings of fome. fort were then ih ufe % though, whether they were Salt, favoury Herbs, or Roots only, or Spices, /£<? Fruits of frees, Pep* /tfr, Cloves, Nutmegs; Bark, Cinnamon ; Roots, as Ginger, &c, IJhall not determine. 5 /d?r Methods of the Cookery of thofe Times, Boiling or Stewing feems to have been the principal % Broiling or Roafting the next; befides which, I prefume fcarce any other were ufed for two thoufand Tears and more-, for I remember no other in the Hiftory of Genefis. 5 HAT Efau mu the fir ft Cook, Ijhall not prefume to after t*, for Abraham Orders to drefs a fatted Calf\ but Efau is the firft Perfon mentioned that made any Ad¬ vances beyondplain Dr effing, as Boiling, Roafting, jFortho* we find, indeed, /to Rebecca, his Mother, was accomplifhed with the Skill of making favoury Meat as well as he, yet whether he learned it from her, or fhe from him, is a Shieftion too knotty for me to determine• BUT Cookery did not long remain a bare Piece of Houfewifery, or Family Oeconomy ; but in Procefs of Time, when Luxury entered the World, it grew to an Art, nay a Trade : For in i Sam. viii. 13, when the Ifraelites grew Fafhionifts, and would have a King, that they might be like the reft of their Neighbours, we read of Cooks, Confettioners, &c< THIS Art being of univerfal Ufe, and in conftant Prattice, has been ever fince upon the Improvement; and we may, I think, with good Reafon believe it is arrived at its great eft Height and Per feel ion, if it is not got be¬ yond it, even to its Declenfion; for whatfoever new, up- ft art, out-of-the-way Meffesfome Humourifts have invent¬ ed, fuch as fluffing a roafted Leg of Mutton with pickled Herring, and the like, are only the Sallies of a capricious A 3 Appetite*