1793 English Housekeeper COOKBOOK Recipes Desserts Cooking Cuisine Home-making

 

"Cut off the fins, and nick the brown side under the head; then take out the guts, and dry them with a cloth, boil them in salt and water; make either gravy, shrimp, cockle, or muscle sauce, and garnish it with red cabbage."

― Experienced English Housekeeper, ‘To boil Flounders’

 

A monumental 18th-century cookbook! This 1793 edition of “The Experienced English Housekeeper” includes many recipes that would still be desirable in the 21st-century, but there are other recipes and methods that are significantly less desirable! Roasted Lark, Stewed Lampreys, and Walnut Catchup! The recipes are concise, short, and easy to read – which is helpful when you really want to make the cream custard dessert quickly! Note that this edition also contains folding engraved, illustrations!

 

Item number: #22274

Price: $750

 

RAFFALD, Elizabeth

 

The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton

 

London : printed for A Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1793.


Details:

·       Collation: Complete with all pages

o   vii, [1], 397, [1]

o   3 folding plates, plus engraved portrait frontispiece

·       Language: English

·       Binding: Leather; tight and secure

·       Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm)

 

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