The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both i the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them

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  • The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both i the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them
  • Accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery; Accomplished ladies delight. In preserving, physic, beautifying and cookery
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor, in the Piazza, at the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, 1684. The fourth edition enlarged.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1684
ESTC No.
R230915
Grub Street ID
103130
Description
[4], 154, [4], 155-208, [12] p., [4] leaves of plates ; 12°.
Note
"An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Wooley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [sic] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Frontis. portrait = plate

With an additional title page (plate), engraved: The accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery

With six final index leaves.