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 /
by Elizabeth Raffald.

Description

Main Author

Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.

Related Names

Warburton, Elizabeth Stanley, Lady, 1715-1780, dedicatee.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for J. Brambles, A. Meggitt, and J. Waters, by H. Mozley, Gainsborough, 1808.

Edition

A new edition /

Subjects

Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive.
Alcoholic beverages.
Wine and wine making.
Housekeeping.
Table setting and decoration > Table setting and decoration / Great Britain.
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Table setting and decoration.
Canning and preserving.
Confectionery.
Seasonal cooking.
Cooking.
Cooking, English.
England > England / Social life and customs > England / Social life and customs / 19th century.
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Leather bindings (Binding)
Recasing (Binding)

Note

Includes recipes for wine, mead, and other liquors; illustrations of kitchen stoves using coal; illustrations of layout of dishes for multi-course meal. Sample recipes: To bake herrings, To make cream pancakes, To make a blanc-mange of isinglass, To make cowslip wine.
Cf. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 387.
Includes index.
Signatures: A⁴ B-N¹² O².
Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Elizabeth Raffald.

Physical Description

vii, 288, 279-282 p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., port. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

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