The Experienced English Housekeeper For The Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, Etc. Written Purely From Practice. Dedicated To The Hon Lady Elizabeth Warburton to Whom the Author Served as Housekeeper. Raffald, Elizabeth. Antiquarian,Cookery,Food and Drink

394 pages inc a 13 page index, + 3 fold-out engraved plates & an engraved portrait of the author, pages browned and aged from the edges inwards, title page and frontis also, closed tear vertically down page 223/224, no loss, original marbled paper boards with a new plain calf spine and titles added on a small morocco label, contents all firm. London 1791. *This Yorkshire born lady was housekeeper for 15 years to the Lady Warburton, then opened her own cookery school in Manchester, gave birth to 15 girls, had 2 inns opened in Manchester and occasionally slept. The 900 recipes in this work contain the introduction of "Eccles Cakes" and the creating/making of a "wedding cake" "Bridal Cake" . All her recipes are her own, she avoided using other works to write from. A dynamic and admirable woman of her own time or any other time to the present. Recipes inc: Lampreys, Pot Lobster which costs £10 guineas, Veal recipes, Transparent Marmalade, Stewed Cucumbers, Amulet of Asparagus, Dress Eggs with Artichoke Bottoms, To Make Stum, (and other alcohol & drink receipts, Flummery in the shape of Cribbage Cards and Solomon's Temple, Fairy Butter, Citron Cheese-Cakes, etc, etc, Complete with the one tear as described.