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| #1265512 in Books | Mcgill Queens Univ Pr | 1994-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.89 x.98 x6.12l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Painstakingly researched and footnoted|By Laura R|I'm happy to report that this isn't one of those books where some digitization service scanned it and everyone else is just churning out prints of the PDF. No. This book is beautifully typeset and edited, eminently readable, and very thoroughly researched and footnoted. There is a LOT of information in here, including med||
"[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.
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,...
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