By Thomas Dawson. Introduction by Maggie Black. Transcribed from Caxton blackletter into a modern typeface for easy reading, with recipes reorganized into categories. An early household manual, this is an example of the trend toward cookbooks written for the non-noble housewife or gentlewoman concerned with the many practical aspects of running a household. Whether cooking, brewing, preserving, distilling, physick (the art of medical care) or animal husbandry, the housewife directly supervised the tasks and in many cases performed them herself. 176 pages. Hardcover. Import.
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