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."
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [291]-296
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 640
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773561250 0773505822
- LCCN
- TX144
- LCCN Item number
- M274 1986eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (321 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00326545 (OCoLC)696031445 (CaOOCEL)400967
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- Gervase Markham 12
- The Housewife 23
- This Edition 54
- Summary of Sources and Close Parallels 57
- 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 64
- 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 119
- CHAPTER III: Of distillations and their virtues, and of perfuming 184
- CHAPTER IV: The ordering, preserving, and helping of all sorts of wines, and first of the choice of sweet wines 196
- CHAPTER V: Of wool, hemp, flax, and cloth, and dyeing of colours, of each several substance, with all the knowledges belonging thereto 205
- CHAPTER VI: Of dairies, butter, cheese, and the necessary things belonging to that office 225
- CHAPTER VII: The office of the maltster, and the several secrets and knowledges belonging to the making of malt 239
- CHAPTER VIII: Of the excellency of oats, and the many singular virtues and uses of them in a family 258
- CHAPTER IX: Of the office of the brew-house, and the bake-house, and the necessary things belonging to the same 263
- Appendix 272
- Collation 276
- Notes 284
- Picture Credits 349
- Bibliography 350
- Glossary 356
- A 356
- B 357
- C 358
- D 359
- E 360
- F 360
- G 361
- H 362
- I 362
- J 362
- K 363
- L 363
- M 363
- N 364
- O 364
- P 365
- Q 366
- R 367
- S 367
- T 370
- U 370
- V 370
- W 371
- Y 371
- Index 372
- A 372
- B 372
- C 373
- D 374
- E 374
- F 374
- G 375
- H 375
- J 376
- K 376
- L 376
- M 377
- N 378
- O 378
- P 378
- R 378
- S 379
- T 379
- U 380
- V 380
- W 380
- Y 380
