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THE
Country Housewife
AND
LADY'S DIRECTOR
IN THE
Management of a House, and the
Delights and Profits of a Farm.
Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar;the making of Wines of all sorts
Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of Butter and Cheese upon theworst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish,Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other useful Branches belonging to a CountrySeat, in the most elegant manner for the Table.
Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method ofmaking Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces.
The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to theEnd of the Year.
With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron.
By R. BRADLEY,
Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge; and F.R.S.
The Sixth EditionWith Additions.
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To The
LADY WAGER,
Consort to the Right Honourable
Sir CHARLES WAGER,
One of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty,
AND
One of His Majesty's Most Honourable
PRIVY-COUNCIL;
This Book is most humbly Dedicated, byHer Ladyship's most Obedient,and most Humble Servant,
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Asparagus, preserv'd.
Ditto Drest the Dutch way.
Ditto with Cream.
Artichoakes, to dry.
Ditto preserv'd.
Ditto pickled.
Ditto fryed.
Ditto in Suckers, to eat raw.
Apricot Wine.
Alamode Beef.
Brandy, Laurel.
Birch-Wine.
Brewing.
Beef Cake-Soup.
Ditto to Pot like Venison.
Beef, to Collar.
Brocoli, to boil.
Butter, good in Suffolk.
Buckingham-Cheese, to make.
Butter, why good or bad.
Ditto in general.
Butter, what Milk is good.
Ditto made over the Fire.
Ditto wash'd.
Ditto churn'd in Summer.
Ditto churn'd in Winter.
Beans, preserv'd, the Winter.
Berberries, to pickle.
Beet-Roots, red, to pickle.
Ditto fryed.
Boar's-Head imitated.
Brawn, to Collar.
Boar, when to be put up for Brawn.
Capon, to dress.
Carps, to stew.
Cellars, which are best.
Cowslip-Wine.
Cheese, spoiled.
Ditto what concerns its Goodness.
Ditto why bad in Suffolk.
Ditto Good from one sort of Cattle.
Ditto preserv'd in Oil.
Ditto Marygold.
Ditto Sage.
Ditto Sage in figures.
Ditto Cheshire.
Ditto Cheshire with Sack.
Ditto Gloucestershire.
Cheese, Cream.
Ditto Why the Aversion to it.
Churns, the Sorts.
Clove-Gilly-Flower Syrup.
Cucumbers, to pickle.
Codlings, to pickl