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Field name | Value |
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Reference | Cookery 1750 El |
Library/Archive | University of Michigan |
Title | The country housewife's family companion, or, Profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good œconomy of the domestick concerns of a country life, according to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's &c. wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England |
Author/Creator | Ellis, William |
Date | 1750 |
Collection | Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive |
Collection Overview | A collection of American culinary history including cookbooks, menus and ephemera from the 16th through to the 21st century. Through this culinary archive researchers can explore changing attitudes towards diet and health, homemaking, commercial dining and the industrialisation of food production. The material has been collected over many years by Jan Longone, an adjunct curator in the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center, and her husband University of Michigan Emeritus Professor Daniel T. Longone. |
Sub-collection | Cookbooks |
Place of Publication | London, UK |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook |
Theme | Food and Identity |
Subjects | home economics medicine agriculture canning and preserving brewing beer |
Cuisine | English cuisine |
Description | Described as: 'I. The Preservation and Improvement of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, and other Meals; with Directions for making several Sorts of Bread, Cakes, Puddings, Pies, &c. II. Frugal Management of Meats, Fruits, Roots, and all Sorts of Herbs; best Methods of Cookery; and a cheap Way to make Soups, Sauces, Gruels, &c. III. Directions for the Farm Yard; with the best Method of increasing and fatning all Sorts of Poultry, as Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, &c. IV. The best Way to breed and fatten Hogs; sundry curious and cheap Methods of preparing Hogs Meat; Directions for curing Bacon, Brawn, pickled Pork, Hams, &c. with the Management of Sows and Pigs. V. The best Method of making Butter and Cheese, with several curious Particulars containing the whole Management of the Dairy. VI. The several Ways of making good Malt; with Directions for brewing good Beer, Ale, &c'. |
Countries | United Kingdom |
Places | London |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of Michigan. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the University of Michigan |