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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Title: 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.
Publication: Williamsburg [Va.]: :: Printed and sold by William Parks.,; 1742.
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Subject terms: Cookery.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Medicine, Popular.; Booksellers' advertisements -- Virginia -- Williamsburg.
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To make a fine Bread Pudding.

TAKE three Pints of Milk, and boil it; when 'tis boiled, sweeten it with half a Pound of Sugar, and a small Nutmeg grated, and put in half a Pound of But|ter; when 'tis melted, pour it in a Pan, over eleven Oun|ces of grated Bread; cover it up. The next Day put to it ten Eggs well beaten, stir all together, and when the Oven is hot, put it in your Dish; three Quarters of an Hour will bake it. Boil a Bit of Lemon peel in the Milk, take it out before you put your other Things in.