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The Experienced English Housekeeper, by ELIZABETH RAFFALD

Creator: ELIZABETH RAFFALD
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
RAFFALD, ELIZABETH.
The Experienced English Housekeeper,
for the use and ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c., wrote purely from practice ... consisting of near Nine Hundred original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print.
Stock Code 102745
London, for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1786
£675
A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a variety of spurious pirated editions: 'She was a shrewd, tactful and strong-willed woman, with a good knowledge of French and an active concern for the poor. From her shop she ran a school of cookery and domestic economy, and what was probably the first register office for servants in Manchester.' (ODNB) 'I would recommend those of a nervous disposition avoid the chapter entitled, To ficcassee [sic] a rabbit's brain.'Elizabeth Raffald was also instrumental in establishing a second Manchester newspaper, the Prescott's Journal, in 1771, and set up the first Directory of Manchester.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	18th Century
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	102745
Incollect Reference #:	604243

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