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, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print : with two plans of a grand table of two covers, and a curious new invented fire stove, wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal / by Elizabeth Raffald.
| Author/creator | Raffald, Elizabeth |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | New ed. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed for James Webster, 1818. |
| Description | iii, 327 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 45465. ^A575643 |
| Contents | Lemon pickle, brownings for all sorts of made dishes, soups, fish, plain meat, game, made dishes, both hot and cold, pyes, puddings, &c. -- All kinds of confectionary, particularly the gold and silver web for covering of sweetmeats and a dessert of spun sugar, with directions to set out a table in the most elegant manner, and in the modern taste. Floating islands, fish ponds, transparent puddings, trifles, whips, &c. -- Pickling, potting and collaring, wines, catchups, distilling, with two most valuable receipts, one for refining malt liquors, the other for curing acid wines, and a correct list of everything in season for every month in the year. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 45465 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 45465). |
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