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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities. Or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. 1. The art of distilling. 2. Making artificial wines. 3. Making syrups. ... 14 The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour and seemly deportment, &c together with a new accession of many curious things and matters, profitable to the female sex, not published in the former editions.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1696- Books
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese, &c. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Farmer's Wife and Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds in General: Likewise a Variety of receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Madam Johnson's present; or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry purinant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: [1755]- Books
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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The Ladies companion, or, A table furnished with sundry sorts of pies and tarts : gracefull at a feast, with many excellent receipts for preserving, conserving, and candying of all manner of fruits, with the making of marchpain, marmalet, and quindenis / By persons of quality whose names are mentioned.
Date: 1654. [i.e. 1653]- Books
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The cook's guide: or, Rare receipts for cookery : Published and set forth particularly for ladies and gentlwomen; being very beneficial for all those that desire the true way of dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowles, and fish; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most ho-good sawces: whereby noble persons and others in their hospitalities may be gratified in their gusto's. Never before printed. By Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1664- Books
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A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything : presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen / by Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1680- Books
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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1687- Books
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The accomplished housekeeper, and universal cook. Containing all the various branches of cookery; directions for Roasting, Boiling and Made Dishes, also for Frying, Broiling, Stewing, Mincing, and Hashing. The different Methods of Dressing Poultry, Game, and Fish, And of Preparing Soups, Gravies, Cullices, and Broths, To dress Roots and Vegetables, And to make all Sorts of Pies, Puddings, Pancakes, and Fritters; Cakes, Puffs, and Biscuits; Cheesecakes, Tarts, and Custards; Creams and Jams; Blanc Mange, Flummery, Jellies, and Syllabubs. The various Articles in Candying, Drying, Preserves, and Pickling; The Preparation of Hams, Tongues, Bacon, and of Made Wines and Cordial Waters. Directions for carving. With a Catalogue of the various Articles in Season every Month in the Year. By T. Williams, and the principal cooks at the London and Crown and Anchor taverns.
Williams, T., cook.Date: 1797- Books
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The experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice ... Consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print. ... By Elizabeth Raffald. A new edition. In which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: 1795- Books
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The treasurie of hidden secrets : Commonlie called, The good-huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. / Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly enlarged, with diuers necessary phisicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases, that most commonly happen to men and women. Not impertinent for euery good huswife to vse in her house, amongst her owne familie.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1608..- Books
Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk.
Date: [2017]- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add lovliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685- Books
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Five hundred points of husbandry: directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved: with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year. By Thomas Tusser, Esq; To which are added notes and observations explaining many obsolete terms used therein, and what is agreeable to the present Practice in several Counties of this Kingdom. A Work very necessary and useful for Gentlemen, as well as Occupiers of Land, whether Wood-Ground or Tillage and Pasture.
Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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Madam Johnson's present: Or, Every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. Spelling, reading, writing, and arith[met]ick taught without the help of a master. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry, and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordindary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketing, cookery, pickling, preserving,&c. To this edition is added, several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published. The compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this book come as cheap as possible to the purchasers, has out of her benevolence, fixed the price at 1s. 6d. bound; though it contains double the quality that is usually sold for that sum.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: 1759- Books
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An inventory of the household goods and other effects of Edward Dennis, lately (deceas'd) seized by virtue of a warrant ... of the Commissioners of the Land-Tax, for the year 1726:
Date: 1726?]- Books
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The young ladies school of arts. Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, Shell-Work, Gilding, Painting, Cosmetics, Jellies, Preserves, Cakes, Cordials, Creams, Jamms, Pickles, Candying, Made Wines, Clear Starching, &c together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs. Hannah Robertson.
Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?.Date: 1784- Books
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1673- Books
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Modern curiosities of art & nature : extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715Date: 1685- Books
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The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened : containing many rare secrets and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses, comprized under three general heads viz. of 1. preserving, conserving, candying &c. 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and housewifety : whereunto is added sundry experiments and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / collected and practised by the late right honourable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen.
M. BDate: 1655- Books
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The true way of preserving and candying, and making several sorts of sweet-meats. According to the best and truest manner : Made publick for the benefit of all English ladies and gentlewomen; especially for my scholars.
Date: In the year, MDCXCV. [1695]- Books
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The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman ... : a work generally approved, and now the sixth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1656- Books
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The British jester; a collection of bon mots, witty stories, and anecdotes; to which are added humorous poetry, and toasts and sentiments.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing I. The art of preserving and candying fruits and flowers; and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; together with some beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent receipts relating to the female sex: and for the general good of families, is added the true receipt for making that famous cordial drink Daffy's elixir salutis. III. The compleat cook's guide: or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode; with all sorts of sauces and sallets: and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: [1696]