The compleat housewife: or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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. Stephens'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 fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirite

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  • The compleat housewife: or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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. Stephens'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 fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirite
  • Complete housewife: or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion
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Imprint
London : printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, John Rivington, James Rivington and J. Fletcher, J. Ward, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, P. Davey and B. Law, [T]. Longman, C. Ware, and M. Cooper, MDCCLVIII [1758] The sixteenth edition, with additions.; ..
Publication year
1758
ESTC No.
T469541
Grub Street ID
409589
Description
[16], 396, xii p., 6 folded leaves of plates; 8°.
Note
At foot of title page: Price five shillings

2B4 missigned B4

Signatures: A-2C]8] 2D]4.