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Title: English Housewifery Exemplified
In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions
for most Parts of Cookery

Author: Elizabeth Moxon

Release Date: November 13, 2003 [EBook #10072]

Language: English

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_ENGLISH_ HOUSEWIFRY

EXEMPLIFIED

In above FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY RECEIPTS,
Giving DIRECTIONS in most PARTS of COOKERY;
And how to prepare various SORTS of
SOOPS, CAKES,
MADE-DISHES, CREAMS,
PASTES, JELLIES,
PICKLES, MADE-WINES, &c.

With CUTS for the orderly placing the DISHES and COURSES; also Bills
of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an alphabetical INDEX to the
Whole.

A BOOK necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women
Servants, and confined to Things USEFUL, SUBSTANTIAL and SPLENDID,
and calculated for the Preservation of HEALTH, and upon the Measures
of _Frugality_, being the Result of thirty Years _Practice_ and
_Experience_.

By ELIZABETH MOXON.

WITH An APPENDIX CONTAINING,
Upwards of Sixty RECEIPTS, of the most valuable Kind, communicated to
the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished
by their extraordinary Skill in HOUSEWIFRY.

THE RETURNS OF SPIRITUAL COMFORT and GRIEF, In a Devout SOUL.

Represented by an Intercourse of Letters to the Right Honourable Lady
LETICE, Countess of Falkland, in her Life Time.

Publish'd for the Benefit and Ease of all who labour under Spiritual
Afflictions.

1764.

THE PREFACE

It is not doubted but the candid Reader will find the following BOOK in
correspondence with the title, which will supersede the necessity of
any other recommendation that might be given it.

As the complier of it engaged in the undertaking at the instance and
importunity of many persons of eminent account and distinction, so she
can truly assure them, and the world,