The English house-wife, containg [sic] the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a complete woman. As her skill in physick, chirurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wides, conceited secrets, distillatians, perfimes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an household. A work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation
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Title: The English house-wife, containg [sic] the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a complete woman. As her skill in physick, chirurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wides, conceited secrets, distillatians, perfimes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an household. A work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation
Classmark: Cookery A/MAR
Creator(s): Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)
Publisher: Printed for George Sawbridge
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1675
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 188 (i.e. 196) p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/253664
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016119779705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
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Pagination irregular.
Probably the 2d part of his Country contentments, the 1st part being a work on husbandry.
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