The English Housewife

by Gervase Markham

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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."

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He used alot of sources that were not orginally his and he actually admits he does a good job of taking information and condensing it and putting it all together, after reading the intro I wonder how much of the work is really his. However the section on how to heal things like, burns is hilarious and I wonder how the poor victims of this cure turned out.
This work was originally published in 1615. It includes compound salads and pies that carry various colors that can be used to create an heraldic device. Once upon a Crown Tourney for the East Kingdom, I used this source to make a purple cookie (plum jam instead of plum turned "that carries the color black" to purple) to set on a rosewater flavored egg yolk center surrounded by an egg white circle. It has a 15 page glossary and lots of footnotes. There are no adapted recipes.

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Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, History, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction
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640.941Applied Science & TechnologyHome economics & family managementHome and familyHistory, geographic treatment, biographyEuropeBritish Isles - UK, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland
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TX144 .M3TechnologyHome economicsHome economics
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