housewife housewife accomplish companion book written published london extremely popular running editions years book published printed virginia contained published recipe appears earliest source bread butter book includes recipes foods waters book title page describes housewife collection approved receipts preserving bills fare month year added collection nearly family receipts drinks things sovereign approved pains wounds etc parts fit private families spirited poor neighbours book publish recipe included mushrooms title housewife owe english little known smith writes preface spent life working cook wealthy households unlike left service run shop continued profession despite success book possible worked abbey hampshire critical books written men conceal secrets preventing readers recipes successfully preface contains following passage grown fashionable book appear public preface lady appear ball shall conform custom fashion sake necessity subject common universal needs argument introduce necessary appetite stands need persons practice love good eating drinking passage lightly adapted earlier book similar title dictionary accomplish housewife companion declared added introduction fashion odd book printed man seen church neck cloth lady contents following refer 9th edition preface bill fare season year page fish cheese sorts page sorts page sorts page sorts page page preserves page sorts page sorts waters page page approach smith offers general advice start book start chapters chapter consists entirely recipes lists ingredients simply mentioned needed recipes recipes mention oven temperature cooking time example candy instructs set glasses moderate heat beef states requires seven hours recipes predominantly english dishes include french foreign names imported ingredients recipes described generally spell basic techniques recipe mention called instruction close small chickens cut pieces season lay sheep pair lamb stones thirty balls lay butter close frequently components dishes described dishes sauce liquor herbs butter contains similar ingredients addition mushrooms recipe ends use called recipes provided home promote breeding women wanting pregnant recipe calls taken night morning good boiled backs half handful handful cat dates woman drinking mixture going bed long lasts accompany husband publication britain book published ran editions editions published smith reveal woman constantly employed fashionable noble families space thirty years upwards fifth edition gave author recorded 7th edition included near receipts communicated author death america housewife book published america ambitious printer originally printed virginia version book ambitious scope based fifth london edition altered suit american taste recipes ingredients materials country copies edition rare happily copy returned city origin library colonial incorporated reception allocated pages history books commenting highly curious contents taken exhibit state knowledge england subject quarter seventeenth quarter eighteenth century reviewing reprint jane society north america wrote book met growing need text assist women task maintaining household quotes introduction saying gives modern readers reason appreciate having global food system brings season produce observes english housewife varieties vegetables kinds kinds including rabbits notes book describes home housewife having function chef doctor chemist woman reflecting recipes probably today useless book remains researchers gives readers glimpse world contemporaries richly documents eighteenth century english life notes book popular eighteenth century london editions years house reprint 16th edition deliberately recipes including promote breeding suggesting publisher concerned harmful historian comments female authored blockbuster comments popularity eighteenth century england challenged seriously better remembered today adding recalled mainly controversy actually existed recipe people supposed started catch hare suggests book popularity colonies probably increased publication american edition concludes quantities ingredients render recipes unsuitable modern kitchen old increasing value interest libraries collectors find truly revealing fascinating glimpse past spring issue published poem called housewife popular published great_britain poem begins learning thigh crab woman grasp maid taught editions 1st edition london 2nd edition london 3rd edition london corrected improved 4th edition london corrected improved 5th edition london large additions reprinted 6th edition london large additions 7th edition london large additions 8th edition london 9th edition london large additions copy 10th edition london large additions 11th edition london large additions 12th edition london large additions 13th edition london large additions reprinted 14th edition london directions marketing 15th edition london additions london london introduction 16th edition london additions 17th edition london 18th 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The Compleat Housewife