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The English Housewife: Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman; As Her Skill in Physic, Cookery, Banq
Gervase Markham
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Description for The English Housewife: Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman; As Her Skill in Physic, Cookery, Banq
Paperback. In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife." Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; VF; WKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other ... Read more
Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773511033
SKU
V9780773511033
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Reviews for The English Housewife: Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman; As Her Skill in Physic, Cookery, Banq
"[The English Housewife] comes as close to a reconstruction of early modern English home life as scholars are likely to attain ... A splendid addition to the knowledge of early-17th-century life and labor." G.M. Straka, Choice.