The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good economy of the domestic concerns of a country life. According to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's, &c., wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England: shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping ... with variety of curious matters ... the whole founded on near thirty years experience / by W. Ellis.

  • Ellis, W. (William), -1785.
Date:
1750
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Credit: The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good economy of the domestic concerns of a country life. According to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's, &c., wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England: shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping ... with variety of curious matters ... the whole founded on near thirty years experience / by W. Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O F T H E Country Family s Frofitahle DireBor. A. Page A LLUAf, made ufe of by Country Bakers 17 & 193 AuthoP% Servant’s Way to make a plain Pudding 36 Antidote for preventing a Cow’s Hoving Apple Pye, a Poem --Pies and Pafties for Harveft, ^c. (Author’s) how made Pudding boiled for a Family a Farmer’s cheap one ——-a better Sort to bake a rich one to boil ---- made inftead of Plumb Pudding for a Lord’s Servants 220 Apples to preferve 232 & 237 177 39 ih. 218 219 ih. ih. and Pears, to forward their ripening Parfnip, its famous Character Apricots^ Ne(9!arines and Peaches, to preferve Ague^i to cure Advertifentente of Allum Anthony^s (St.) Fire Arm wafted, to cure Artifice made ufe of in churning Butter 277, 239 41 238 278 S94 261 287 315 B READ of Barley B. for Servants - made in Finland of three Sorts out of Wheat-meal French -a fecond Way a third Way to make eat like wheaten Bread 189 ib. fubftantial 24 187 191 ib. ib. 192