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 beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent receipts relating to the female sex: and for the general good of families, is added the true receipt for making that famous cordial drink Daffy's elixir salutis. III. The compleat cook's guide: or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode; with all sorts of 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 beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent receipts relating to the female sex: and for the general good of families, is added the true receipt for making that famous cordial drink Daffy's elixir salutis. III. The compleat cook's guide: or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode; with all sorts of 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
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Imprint
London: printed for B[enjamin]. Harris, in Maiden-head-Court in Great East-Cheap; and are sold by Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star in Cornhil, [1696] The seventh edition enlarged.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1696
ESTC No.
R231961
Grub Street ID
103865
Description
[6], 178, [8] p., [2] leaves of plate : ill., port. ; 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

With engraved frontispiece(pi1) and an additional title page (pi2), engraved: The accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving physick, beautifying and cookery

Includes indices.
Uncontrolled note
Wing puts the imprint date on title page