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The English Housewife.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986Copyright date: ©1986Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (380 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773561250
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The English HousewifeLOC classification:
  • TX144 -- .M37 1986eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Gervase Markham -- The Housewife -- This Edition -- Summary of Sources and Close Parallels -- CHAPTER I: Of the inward virtues which ought to be in every housewife. And first of her general knowledges both in physic and surgery, with plain approved medicines for health of the household, also the extraction of excellent oils fit for those purpose -- CHAPTER II: Of the outward and active knowledge of the housewife: and first of her skill in cookery -- as sallats of all sorts, with flesh, fish, sauces, pastry, banqueting stuff, and ordering of great feasts -- CHAPTER III: Of distillations and their virtues, and of perfuming -- CHAPTER IV: The ordering, preserving, and helping of all sorts of wines, and first of the choice of sweet wines -- CHAPTER V: Of wool, hemp, flax, and cloth, and dyeing of colours, of each several substance, with all the knowledges belonging thereto -- CHAPTER VI: Of dairies, butter, cheese, and the necessary things belonging to that office -- CHAPTER VII: The office of the maltster, and the several secrets and knowledges belonging to the making of malt -- CHAPTER VIII: Of the excellency of oats, and the many singular virtues and uses of them in a family -- CHAPTER IX: Of the office of the brew-house, and the bake-house, and the necessary things belonging to the same -- Appendix -- Collation -- Notes -- Picture Credits -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife.".
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Gervase Markham -- The Housewife -- This Edition -- Summary of Sources and Close Parallels -- CHAPTER I: Of the inward virtues which ought to be in every housewife. And first of her general knowledges both in physic and surgery, with plain approved medicines for health of the household, also the extraction of excellent oils fit for those purpose -- CHAPTER II: Of the outward and active knowledge of the housewife: and first of her skill in cookery -- as sallats of all sorts, with flesh, fish, sauces, pastry, banqueting stuff, and ordering of great feasts -- CHAPTER III: Of distillations and their virtues, and of perfuming -- CHAPTER IV: The ordering, preserving, and helping of all sorts of wines, and first of the choice of sweet wines -- CHAPTER V: Of wool, hemp, flax, and cloth, and dyeing of colours, of each several substance, with all the knowledges belonging thereto -- CHAPTER VI: Of dairies, butter, cheese, and the necessary things belonging to that office -- CHAPTER VII: The office of the maltster, and the several secrets and knowledges belonging to the making of malt -- CHAPTER VIII: Of the excellency of oats, and the many singular virtues and uses of them in a family -- CHAPTER IX: Of the office of the brew-house, and the bake-house, and the necessary things belonging to the same -- Appendix -- Collation -- Notes -- Picture Credits -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife.".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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