The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.

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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
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Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
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London :: printed for T. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London Bridge,
1677.
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Subject terms
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
House cleaning -- Early works to 1800.
Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
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"The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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To make a Pidgeon Pye.

Truss your pidgeons to bake, and set them, and Lard one half of them with bacon, mince a sew sweet herbs and parsly with a little suet, the yolks of hard eggs and an o∣nion or two, season it with salt, beaten pep∣per, cloves, mace, nutmegs, work it up with a piece of butter, and stuff the bellies of the pidgeons, season them with salt and pepper as before, take also as many Lamb-stones seasoned as before, with six collops of bacon the salt drawn out, then make a large Coffin and put in your Pidgeons, and •••• you will, put in Lamb-stones and sweet-breads and some Arichoke bottoms or other dry meat to soak up the juice, because the Pye will be very sweet and full of t, then when it comes out of the Oven, put in a lit∣le Whitewine beat up with the yolk of an egg.

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