A present for a servant-maid or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem. Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on Errands. Telling Family Affairs. Secrets among Fellow-Servants. Entring into their Quarrels. Tale-Bearing. Being an Eye-Servant. Carelessness of Children. Of Fire, Candle, Thieves. New Acquaintance. Fortune-Tellers. Giving saucy Answers. Liquorishness. Apeing the Fashion. Dishonesty. The Market Penny. Delaying to give Change. Giving away Victuals. Bringing in Chair-Women, Wasting Victuals Quarrels with Fellow-Servants. Behaviour to the Sick. Hearing Things against a Master or Mistress. Being too free with Men Servants. Conduct toward Apprentices. Mispending Time. Publick Shews. Vails. Giving Advice too freely. Chastity. Temptations from the Master. If a single Man. If a married Man. If from the Master's Son. If from Gentle men Lodgers. To which are Added, Directions for going to Market, Also. For Dressing any Common Dish, whether Flesh, Fish, or Fowl. With some Rules for Washing, &c. The Whole calculated for making both the Mistress and the Maid happy

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Haywood, Eliza Fowler
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed and publish'd by T. Gardner, at Cowley's Head, without Temple-Bar; and sold by the booksellers of town and country 1743, [1743]
Subjects:	Cookery, English / Early Works To 1800 Domestics / Early Works To 1800 Home Economics / History
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0197801100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa