English housewifery : Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery ... With cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole ... / by Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, containing upwards of eighty receipts, of the most valuable kind; (many never before printed) ... To this edition is now added, and introduction, giving an account of the times when river fish are in season; and a table, shewing at one view the proper seasons for sea fish.

  • Moxon, Elizabeth.
Date:
1800
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Credit: English housewifery : Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery ... With cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole ... / by Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, containing upwards of eighty receipts, of the most valuable kind; (many never before printed) ... To this edition is now added, and introduction, giving an account of the times when river fish are in season; and a table, shewing at one view the proper seasons for sea fish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION To the Fourteenth Edition. M ANY friends to this publication having repeatedly exprefied their defires of knowing the particular months when river-fifh fpawn, and are moll in fealon ; the Editor of this work, ever ready to attend to the kind hints which are offered for its improvement, and im- prcfled with the deepeft fenfe of gratitude to the public, tor their favourable reception of thirteen very large dif- tintff imprefiions of the work, fubtrits to their candor, the heft anfwers, as fuited to the rivers Aire and Wharfe, which he hath been able to procure to their requefts ; and the belt information, in fuch other particulars, as, he apprehends, maybe ufeful. BARBEL.—This fifh fpawns at the latter end of April, or in the beginning of May ; begins to be in fea- fon about a month after, and continues in feafon till the time of fpawning returns. It is very bony and coarl'e, and is not accounted, at anytime, the bell filh to eat either for * ** wholefomenefs or taffe but the fpawn is of * Hawkins, the Editor of Walton’s Complete Angler, obferves, P. 117, Note, That “ though the fpawn of Barbel is known to be “ ota poifotrous nature, yet it is often taken, by countrv people, “ medicinally, who find it at once a moll powerful emetic and “ cathartic. And, notwithllanding what is faid of the vliole- fomcnefs of the flejh, with fame conftitutions it produces the •!l fame cftefls as the fpawn. About the month of September, in “ the year 1754, a fervant of mine, who had eaten part of a Bar- ** bcl, though as I had cautioned him, he abilaincd trom the “ fpawn, was feized with fuch a violent purging and v»tRiung as ei Had like to have coft him lu$ litc.”