The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With Copper Plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses. And Also, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water failed; never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. With Directions for Marketing. By E. Smith.
- Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
- Date:
- 1766
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Also known as
Compleat housewife
Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Buckland, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Rivington, T. Lowndes, C. and R. Ware, S. Bladon, and W. Nicoll, 1766.
Physical description
[14],364,[16]p.,plate ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The seventeenth edition, with additions.
References note
ESTC T129366
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.