Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing the most approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties. Trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing the most approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties. Trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    they will become so necessary a part of the system, that no period of time will afterwards succeed in eradicating them. Consequently, the duty becomes a solemn one to such,parents as wish their children to prosper in worldly affairs. But, alas! how rarely do we find such a line of conduct pursued—how very seldom behold a female child educated as she should be! Thus, if we observe what passes around us, we shall frequently notice a little miss, not escaped from the nursery, a proficient in the art of dancing, or an amateur in music, a complete adept in dress, and an able follower of all the idle airs of empty fashion and false conceit; but should we have to search farther, all is a terrible blank; consequently such idle, and certainly useless pur- suits, gain an ascendancy over the mind, and go- vern it through the remaining parts of life, to the total banishment of every useful duty and real ac- complishment. The precious time of youth once lost can never be regained, and the impressions then made never eradicated; so that ive shall see such a child, as she advances in years, become a perfect slave to her idle caprice, instead of the good wife, affectionate mother, and worthy mistress. That this should be the case is lamentable; but that it is so we may daily, nay hourly, experience. The grand aim of fashionable parents appears to be, to have their daughters instructed in every idle and extravagant “accomplishment” (as they term it), and when this course of education is completed, and the lovely creature ruined for ever, she must then be introduced to the dissipated circles of fashion, where her whole time is passed in a continual enjoyment of false pleasure, and where, from the adulation paid her by the cox- combs of the day, she learns to think herself born for the ornament of the world, to imagine herself