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THE
Country Housewife
AND
LADY'S DIRECTOR
IN THE
Management of a House, and the
Delights and Profits of a Farm.
CONTAINING
Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines of all sorts
Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of Butter and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other useful Branches belonging to a Country Seat, in the most elegant manner for the Table.
Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces.
The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year.
With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron.
By R. BRADLEY,
Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge; and F.R.S.
The Sixth Edition With Additions.
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To The
LADY WAGER,
Consort to the Right Honourable
Sir CHARLES WAGER,
One of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty,
AND
One of His Majesty's Most Honourable
PRIVY-COUNCIL;
This Book is most humbly Dedicated, by Her Ladyship's most Obedient, and most Humble Servant,
R. BRADLEY.
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