English housewifery, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, &c. &c. &c. 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. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial, and Splendid, and calculated for the Preservaion of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of Thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, Containing upwards of Eighty Receipts, of the most valuable Kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary Skill in Housewifery. - To this Edition is now added, An 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.
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1790
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Leeds : printed by Thomas Wright, for J. Binns, and W. Fawdington, Leeds; Wilson, Spence and Mawman, York; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, and William Bent, Paternoster-Row, London; and by most Booksellers in Great-Britain, 1790.

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viii,[1],6-203,[1],37,[21]p.,tables ; 120.

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Thirteenth edition, corrected.

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ESTC T77095

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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