The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman: as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banquetting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying; the knowldege of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in a family: of brewing, baking and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation. By G.M.

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Main Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : printed by W. Wilson, George Sawbridge, at the bible on Ludgate-hill near Fleet-Bridge, 1664.
Series:Early English books online.
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