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The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome
The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman... A work generally approved, and now the sixth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation
The English hous-wife : extracted from the original work published in 1653