The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feedings and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat, in the most elegant manner for the table. Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron. By R. Bradley, professor of botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S

People / Organizations

• Richard Bradley (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXXVI. [1736] The sixth edition. With additions.; ..

Added name

Browne, Daniel, -1762, bookseller.

Publication year

1736

ESTC No.

T34242

Grub Street ID

264576

Description

xi, [1], 187, [9] p. : ill. ; 8°.

Note

The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall

A reissue of the 1732 edition

Frontispiece = illustration

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials

Includes index

Signatures: A-M]8] N]4] ***]4.