The English hovse-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of ... wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth ... the knowledge of dayries, office of malting ... baking, and all other things belonging to an household / A worke generally approved, and now the fifthe time much augmented. Purged and made most profitable ... By G. [ervase] M.[arkham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
1637

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The English hovse-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of ... wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth ... the knowledge of dayries, office of malting ... baking, and all other things belonging to an household / A worke generally approved, and now the fifthe time much augmented. Purged and made most profitable ... By G. [ervase] M.[arkham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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