1794 English Housekeeper COOKBOOK Recipes Desserts Cooking Cuisine Home-making

1794 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 1794 edition 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: #16852

Price: $599

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 R. Baldwin, 1794.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [4], iii, [1], 384, [16]
  • 3 folding plates, engraved frontispiece
• Provenance: Handwritten – M. Seiker, 1849
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22cm x 14cm)

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