In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who would share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.

Red Classics Great Food the Well Kept Kitchen (Penguin Great Food)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Markham, Gervase

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Penguin Uk

In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.

The Well-Kept Kitchen (Penguin Great Food)

Reference

Penguin??Books

Edited by Dan Lucid. With pictures by Pauline Baynes. Book is adapted from a 17th Century work.

The compleat horseman

Houghton/Mifflin

The Last Fight of the Revenge: And the Death of Sir Richard Grenville

History

BiblioBazaar

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, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other source from this period provides the same richness of information in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his abundant notes make The English Housewife readily accessible to the contemporary reader.

The English Housewife

Literature & Fiction

Best, Michael R.

British & Irish

McGill-Queen's University Press

Parenting & Relationships

Europe

Legare Street Press

The Last Fight Of The Revenge At Sea: Under The Command Of Richard Grenville, On September 10-11, 1591 (1871)

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Biographies & Memoirs

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Van Linschoten, Jan Huygen

Leaders & Notable People

Kessinger Publishing

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The inrichment of the weald of Kent, or, A direction to the husband-man for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent and Sussex ... / by G.M. (1656)

Business & Money

Economics

EEBO Editions, ProQuest

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