The housewife [electronic resource] : Being a most useful assistant in all domestic concerns, whether in a town or country situation. Containing, bills of fare for every month in the year, with Rules for Marketting. General Rules in Cookery. Directions for dressing all Kind of Fish, Flesh and Fowl, with their proper Sauces. Method of making Ragouts, Soups, Broths, Pottages, Cullisses; and dressing all Sorts of Kitchen-Garden Stuff Forms for making Jellies, Pies and Puddings. Pickling, Collaring, Potting and Preserving. Instructions for making Butter and Cheese. Rules for setting out Dinners, Suppers, &c. To make Beer, Ale, English Wines, Mead, Metheglin, Cyder, and Shrub. A curious Method of preserving Eggs fresh, either for Eating or Hatching a Twelvemonth; not to be found in any other Work of the Kind. Variety of receipts in physic, which comprize cures for most of the ailments, Accidents and Indispositions with which the human Body is chiefly amicted. Particularly, new and approved Recipes for the Recovery of Consumptive, Gouty, and Rheumatic Persons. By Lætitia Montague Sometime Companion to a Lady in one of the first Families in the Kingdom.