The Lady's Companion: Or, an Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex: Containing, Observations for Their Conduct Thro' All Ages and Circumstances of Life: in which are Comprised All Parts of Good Housewifry, Particularly Rules, and Above Two Thousand Different Receipts in Every Kind of Cookery. I. Making All Sorts of Soops and Sauces. II. Dressing Flesh, Fish, and Fowl; this Last Illustrated with Cuts, Shewing how Every Fowl, &c. is to be Truss'd for the Spit. III. Making 100 Different Sorts of Puddings. IV. The Whole Art of Pastry, in Making Pies, Tarts, &c. V. Receipts for Pickling, Collaring, Potting, &c. VI. For Preserving, Making Creams, Jellies, and All Manner of Confectionary. Vii. Rules and Directions for Setting Out Dinners, Suppers, and Grand Entertainments. To which is Added, Several Bills of Fare for Every Month in the Year, and the Shapes of Pies, Tarts, and Pasties. With Instructions for Marketing. Also Receipts for Making the Choicest Cordials for the Closet: Brewing Beers, Ales, &c. Making All Sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mum, Mead, Metheglin, Vinegar, Verjuice, Catchup, &c. Some Fine Perfumes, Pomatums, Cosmeticks, and Other Beautifiers. With 300 Valuable Receipts in Physick..T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryers, Fleet-Street, 1743 Directions towards cooking and wifely conduct. |
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Page 71 - ... an Impertinence. The Art of laying out Money wisely is not attained to without a great deal of thought ; and it is yet more difficult in the case of a Wife, who is accountable to her Husband for her mistakes in it. It is not only his Money, his Credit too is at stake, if what lieth under the Wife's care is managed, either with undecent Thrift, or too loose Profusion.
Page 55 - A Woman is not to be proud of her fine Gown; nor when she hath less Wit than her Neighbours, to comfort her self that she hath more Lace.
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