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

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Smith, Eliza
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	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, 1766
Edition:	The seventeenth edition, with additions
Subjects:	Cookery / Early Works To 1800 Cookery, English Medicine / Formulae, Receipts, Prescriptions
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0773300400?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa