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.

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.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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A good Vomit.TAKE two Ounces of the finest white Allum, beat it small, put it into better than half a Pint of New|milk, set it on a slow Fire till the Milk is turn'd clear; let it stand a quarter of an Hour, strain it off and drink it just warm. It will give three or four Vomits, and is ve|ry safe, and an excellent Cure for an Ague, taken half an Hour before the Fit; drink good store of Carduus Tea after it. Or else take half a Drachm of Ipecacnana, and Carduus Tea with it.An Ointment for a Scald Head.TAKE one Pound of May Butter without Salt, one of the Churn, a Pint of Ale not too stale, a good Handful of green Wormwood; let the Ale be hot, and put in the Butter to melt, shred the Wormwood, and let them boil together till it turns green; strain it, and when 'tis cold take the Ointment from the Dregs.To Cure the Piles.TAKE two Pennyworth of Litharge of Gold, one Ounce of Sallet Oil, one Spoonful of White-wine Vinegar; put all into a new Gallipot, beat it together with a Knife till 'tis as thick as an Ointment: Spread it on a Cloth, and apply it to the Place; if Inward, put it up as far as you can.To make the Teeth White.TAKE three Spoonfuls of Celandine, nine Spoon|fuls of Honey, half a Spoonful of burnt Allum; mix these together, and rub the Teeth with it.A Powder for the Teeth.HALF an Ounce of Cream of Tartar, and a quar|ter of an Ounce of Powder of Myrrh; rub the Teeth with it two or three Times a Week.0