The complete housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of seven 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 of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of above three 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, &c. particuarly Mrs Stevens's medicine for the cure of the stone and gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous receipt for teh cure of a bite of a mad dog : with several other excellent receipts for the same, which have cured when the persons were disordered, and the salt water failed : never before made public : fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours : with directions for marketing
by: Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Published: (1766)