The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished (Accomplish'd) Gentlewoman's Companion: Being A Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With Copper Plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And Also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Two Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, etc. never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public spirited Gentlewome

E S [Eliza Smith (died circa 1732)]

Verlag: Printed for J. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, London First Edition . 1727., 1727

Beschreibung

First edition hard back binding in contemporary full leather covers, five raised bands, red and gilt title lettering label to the spine, blind tooling to the front and rear panels. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Cookery book written by Eliza Smith which was first published in 1727 and ran through 18 editions by 1773. The first four editions were published under the byline "E S ", but Smith did reveal she was a woman 'constantly employed in fashionable and noble Families for the Space of thirty Years and upwards'. The fifth edition of 1732 gave the author's name as 'E. Smith'. It was the first cookery book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies of America and was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1742. It contained the first published recipe for 'katchup' which included mushrooms, anchovies and horseradish, it also appears to be the earliest source for bread and butter pudding. Contains lovely wood block engraved illustrated header to the preface, illustrated capital letter 'I', (xiv), wood block engraved illustrated header to page 1, illustrated capital letter 'T', 326 printed pages of text, small headers throughout, six plates which should be folding; however, the fold-out part of each plate is missing, 16 page index, colophon, (ii) publisher's printed books list. Front end papers absent, small piece of paper missing to the bottom corner of pages 35 and 291 just touching the text block, old pen notes to the rear paste down and end paper, dusty page edges, the odd early page with toning to the margins. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOOD [British Cookery]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100767

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Titel: The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished (...

Verlag: Printed for J. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, London First Edition . 1727.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1727

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage