1793 English Housekeeper COOKBOOK Recipes Desserts Cooking Cuisine Home-making

1793 English Housekeeper COOKBOOK Recipes Desserts Cooking Cuisine Home-making

“Cut off the fins, and nick the brown side under the head; then take out the guts, and dry them with a cloth, boil them in salt and water; make either gravy, shrimp, cockle, or muscle sauce, and garnish it with red cabbage.”

― Experienced English Housekeeper, ‘To boil Flounders’

A monumental 18^th-century cookbook! This 1793 edition of “The Experienced English Housekeeper” includes many recipes that would still be desirable in the 21^st-century, but there are other recipes and methods that are significantly less desirable! Roasted Lark, Stewed Lampreys, and Walnut Catchup! The recipes are concise, short, and easy to read – which is helpful when you really want to make the cream custard dessert quickly! Note that this edition also contains folding engraved, illustrations!

Item number: #22274

Price: $750

RAFFALD, Elizabeth

The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton

London : printed for A Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1793.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vii, [1], 397, [1]
  • 3 folding plates, plus engraved portrait frontispiece
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm)

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