The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion: Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.

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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion: Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.
Author
J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.
Publication
London :: printed by W.W. for Nicholas Boddington in Duck-Lane; and Joseph Blare on London-Bridge,
1687.
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Subject terms
Cookery, English
Home economics
Women -- Conduct of life
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"The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion: Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93181.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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To make a young Face exceeding Beautifull, an an old Face very Tollerable.

TAke of Benjamine two handfulls, Scab¦ous the like quantity, the Roots 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Comfry a handfull, Peny-royal and Rosema¦ry,

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of each a handfull: wash and pick them an, then steep them a day and a night in White-wine, sprinkling them afterward with wder of Myrrh; and so put them into a ld Still, and the Water so drawn off will ceed any Wash in use, and not at all pre∣••••dice the party when she leaves it off, as ose which are Chymically prepared do, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rendering those old and withered even the prime of their youth, who accustom ••••emselves thereto.

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