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Total number of records: 6

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home economics, rural	6
agriculture	3
cooking	3
country life	1
home economics	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Cobbett, William (1763-1835)	2
Ellis, William (1700-1758)	2
Hayes, B J	1
Hayes, B. J	1
Loudon, Mrs Jane (1807-1858)	1
Thick, Malcolm	1
Thompson, John	1
Thompson, John M.A. Camb	1
Xenophon	1

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From 1900	2
From 2000	1

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Up to 1999	2
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Xenophon, Oeconomicus

Xenophon; Thompson, John M.A. Camb; Hayes, B J

[1909]

1 p. of advertisements at the beginning and 16 p at the end.

Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project

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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family

Cobbett, William (1763-1835)

1822

Pp. 121-144, 167-68 are omitted from the numeration, text is continuous. First published in 8 monthly parts, Aug. l, 1821-Mar. 1, 1822.

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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family

Cobbett, William (1763-1835)

1822

Pp. 121-144, 167-68 are omitted from the numeration, text is continuous. First published in 8 monthly parts, Aug. l, 1821-Mar. 1, 1822.

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The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good œconomy of the domestick concerns of a country life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other Parts of England: Shewing How great Savings may be made in Housekeeping: And wherein, among many others, The following Heads are particularly treated of and explained: I. The Preservation and Improvement of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, and other Meals; with Directions for making several Sorts of Bread, Cakes, Puddings, Pies, &c. II. Frugal Management of Meats, Fruits, Roots, and all Sorts of Herbs; best Methods of Cookery; and a cheap Way to make Soups, Sauces, Gruels, &c. III. Directions for the Farm Yard; with the best Method of increasing and fatning all Sorts of Poultry, as Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, &c. IV. The best Way to breed and fatten Hogs; sundry curious and cheap Methods of preparing Hogs Meat; Directions for curing Bacon, Brawn, pickled Pork, Hams, &c. with the Management of Sows and Pigs. V. The best Method of making Butter and Cheese, with several curious Particulars containing the whole Management of the Dairy. VI. The several Ways of making good Malt; with Directions for brewing good Beer, Ale, &c. With Variety of Curious Matters, Wherein are contained frugal Methods for victualling Harvest-Men, Ways to destroy all Sorts of Vermine, the best Manner of suckling and fattening Calves, Prescriptions for curing all Sorts of Distempers in Cattle, with Variety of curious Receits for Pickling, Preserving, Distilling, &c. The whole founded on near thirty years experience by W. Ellis, Farmer, at Little Gaddesden, near Hempsted, Hertfords

Ellis, William (1700-1758)

1750

With a final advertisement leaf.

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The lady's country companion

Loudon, Mrs Jane (1807-1858)

1984

Facsimile reprint. Originally published. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845.

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The country housewife's family companion

Ellis, William (1700-1758); Thick, Malcolm

2000

Originally published: London : printed for James Hodges,; and B. Collins, Salisbury, 1750. Includes glossary. Includes facsimile of original t.p.