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A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764
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Recipes supplied by: Ann Cutler (f.13r); Mrs Scammell (f.14r); Mr Davie (f.16r); Mrs Indmah (?) (f.17r); Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Richardson (f.18r); Mrs Addams (f.18v); Mrs Green (ff.19v, 24r and 24v), a...
Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755
1752-1755
Ff.135-141 are sewn in loosely at the end, the stub of the former f.142 being visible
An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes
17--
The book begins '[index] Almond'. Recipes are ascribed to 'Mrs. Gorden' (p.10), 'Raffald' (p.45), 'Miss Hall' (p.48), 'Mrs. Masterson' (p.198) and 'Mr. Webb' (p.226).
Madam Johnson's present: or, The best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and instructions how to marry pursuant thereto... With several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published
Johnson, Mary (fl. 1753)
1754
First published (1753) with title: The young woman's companion; or, The servant-maid's assistant.
Madam Johnson's present: or, The best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and instructions how to marry pursuant thereto... With several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published
Johnson, Mary (fl. 1753)
1755
First published (1753) with title: The young woman's companion; or, The servant-maid's assistant.
Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge... To this edition is added, several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published
Johnson, Mary (fl. 1753)
1759
First published (1753) with title: The young woman's companion; or, The servant-maid's assistant.
The young ladies school of arts : Containing a great variety of practical receipts... Together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never before published
Robertson, Hannah (1724-1806)
1777
A present for a servant-maid. Or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem : Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on errands. Telling family affairs. Secrets among fellow-servants... To which are added, directions for going to market: also, for dressing any common dish, whether flesh, fish or fowl. With some rules for washing, &c. The whole calculated for making both the mistress and the maid happy
Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)
1743
Attributed to Eliza Fowler Haywood by ESTC.
A present for a servant-maid: or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem : Under the following heads: observance, avoiding sloth, sluttishness, staying on errands, telling family affairs, secrets among fellow-servants... To which are added, directions for going to market; also, for dressing any common dish, whether flesh, fish, or fowl. With some rules for washing, &c. The whole calculated for making both the mistress and the maid happy
Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)
1749
Attributed to Eliza Fowler Haywood by ESTC.
Five hundred points of husbandry : directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved : with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year
Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)
MDCCXLIV [1744]
Originally published: A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie. London : Imprinted by R. Tottil, 1557; a new edition of "Tusser redivivus", first published in this form 1710. In verse.
Five hundred points of husbandry : directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved : with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year
Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)
MDCCXLIV [1744]
Originally published: A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie. London : Imprinted by R. Tottil, 1557; a new edition of "Tusser redivivus", first published in this form 1710. In verse.
The accomplish'd housewife : or, the gentlewoman's companion... Concluding with some serious instructions for the conduct of the fair sex, with regard to their duty towards God, and towards their neighbours
1745
Anon. Includes index. Contents: I. Reflections on the education of the fair sex; with characters for their imitation. -- II. The penman's advice to the ladies; or the art of writing made easy, and...