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Book/Printed Material The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar

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Title

  • The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron.

Names

  • Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London, D. Browne, 1736, '32.

Headings

  • -  Cooking, English
  • -  Cooking--Early works to 1800

Genre

  • Cookbooks

Notes

  • -  The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.
  • -  ESTC T34242
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-02-26 update (2 cards)

Medium

  • 2 v. in 1. front., illus. 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX705 .B812

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44043097

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bradley, Richard, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron. London, D. Browne, '32, 1736. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/44043097/.

APA citation style:

Bradley, R. & Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. (1736) The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron. London, D. Browne, '32. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44043097/.

MLA citation style:

Bradley, Richard, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron. London, D. Browne, '32, 1736. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44043097/>.