The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely from Practice, Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper: Consisting of Several Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print.
Part I. Lemon Pickle, Browning for all Sorts of Made Dishes, Soups, Fish, Plain Meat, Game, Made Dishes, Both Hot and Cold, Pies, Pudding, &c.
Part II. All Kinds of Confectionary, Particularly the Gold and Silver Web for Covering of Sweetmeats, and a Desert of Spun Sugar, with Directions to Set Out a Table in the Most Elegant Manner, and in the Modern Taste, Floating Islands, Fish - Ponds, Transparent Puddings, Trifles, Whips, &c.
Part III. Pickling, Potting, and Collaring, Wines, Vinegars, Catchups, Distilling, with Two Most Valuable Receipts, One for Refining Malt-Liquors, the Other for Curing Acid Wines, and a Correct List of Every Thing in Season for Every Month in the Year.
By Elizabeth Raffald. A New Edition, in Which are Inserted Some Celebrated Receipts, by Other Modern Authors. London; Printed for the Booksellers; 1794.
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Provenance:
Ownership inscription of "Catherine Watson". With a handwritten tipped-in leaf with the title "?acrs in this volume of miscellaneous pamphletts". The dates 1739, 1744, and 1745 appear after each numbered sentence.
Size: 140 x 206 x 35 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[A1-A2, i-iv, 384pp, index, 14pp, three foldouts].
Naively rebacked with a plain spine with no tooled labels or gilt. Boards irregular causing shelf lean. Boards with rubbing, scuffing, scratches, and few fragments of leather lacking. Front hinge cracked. New pastedown attached over original front pastedown. New preliminaries have been bound in with potentially original preliminary (with handwritten notes). Frontispiece lacking if called for (?). Title page partially detached from the page block with toning, foxing, and two very minor worm holes. Text block toned with minor foxing. More prominent foxing to pp.113-136. Three plates bound at the rear with minor foxing. Ink ownership inscription on endpaper and rear pastedown. Rear hinge reinforced with the rebacked spine.
[ESTC: T219077].
