The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors. / By E. Smith.
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The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors. / By E. Smith.
Author
Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.
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Williamsburg [Va.]: :: Printed and sold by William Parks.,
1742.
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Cookery.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine, Popular.
Booksellers' advertisements -- Virginia -- Williamsburg.
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"The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors. / By E. Smith." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N04107.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 5, 2024.
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A Pigeon Pye.
TRUSS and season your Pigeons with savoury Spice, lard them with Bacon, and stuff them with Forc'd|meat, and lay them in the Pye with the Ingredients for savoury Pyes, with Butter, and close the Pye. A Lear, a Chicken or Capon Pye, is made the same Way.
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