The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c., written purely from practice : dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print /

Includes recipes for wine, mead, and other liquors; illustrations of kitchen stoves using coal; illustrations of layout of dishes for multi-course meal. Sample recipes: To bake herrings, To make cream pancakes, To make a blanc-mange of isinglass, To make cowslip wine.

Cf. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 387.

Includes index.

Signatures: A⁴ B-N¹² O².

Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Elizabeth Raffald.

part I. Lemon-pickle; browning for all sorts of made dishes; soups, fish, plain meat, game, made dishes, both hot and cold, pies, puddings, &c. -- part II. All kinds of confectionary, particularly the gold and silver web for covering of sweetmeats, and a dessert of spun sugar; with directions to set out a table in the most elegant manner and in the modern taste; floating island, fish ponds, transparent puddings, trifles, whips, &c. -- part III. Pickling, potting, and collaring; wines, vinegars, catchups, distilling; with two most valuable receipts, one for refining malt liquors, the other for curing acid wines; and a correct list of every thing in season for every month in the year.

Mode of access: Internet.

Housed in blue cloth traycase, brown title label stamped in gold. Recasing: quarter brown goatskin; marbled paper boards; red leather lettering piece on spine. Plates lined with Japanese paper; resewn. Original upper board preserved and kept with book. (Old description: Brown sheepskin; upper cover and part of spine only present).

ACQ: 37883; UM Special Collections; Transfer; 4/25/2011.