The English hous-wife
containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman : as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banquetting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying, the knowldege of dayries, office of malting, of oats, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking and all other things belonging to an houshold : a work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this nation
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Author
Contributions
- Sawbridge, George, -1681, bookseller - Contributor
Publication
Printed by W. Wilson, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-hill near Fleet Bridge, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
49,000 words, Guess
Page Count
196 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveenglishhouswifec00mark
- OCLC Control Number82256346
- Open LibraryOL37745438M
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