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 May 22, 2024.

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To Fry Oysters.

Strain the liquor from them, and parboyl them in a Kettle, then dry and rowl them in flower or make a bitter o eggs, flower, a little Cream and salt, dip them therein and fry them in butter beating it up thick,

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having warmed the dish rub it with some garlick and lay thereon the Oysters, gar∣nishing the dish with sliees of Orange.

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