The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present, but future happiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.

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The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present, but future happiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.
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Lady, fl. 1701.
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London :: printed for J. Gwillim, against the Great James Tavern in Bishopsgate-street,
1696.
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Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present, but future happiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65957.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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Marmalade of Oranges, Lemon, or Citrons, &c.

Take the Peels of either, clean scraped within, and thinly pared without, boyl them tender, shifting in three waters, to take away the bitterness till they have lost a great part of their taste, then mash them in a Mortar, with a wooden pestle, boyl up Syrup with half a point of wa∣ter to a pound of Sugar and when it is of a good thickness, put in the Orange pulp, &c. and boyl it up, scumming off the Froth, to the thickness of Marmalade,

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and scent it with Rose-water, or Orange water, and put it up in Boxes, or lay it on a Plate and dry it into Past.

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