~ The House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Pastry, Pickling, Collaring, &c., by Mrs. Sarah Harrison, 1760
Historical Notes:
1) “Sheep’s Lights” = sheep lungs
2) I am not sure whether “a Looseness” is constipation or diarrhea, but in either case it’s good to know that it can be eased with “comfortable Things”.
~ A Little Pretty Pocket-Book: Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly, by Isaiah Thomas, 1787
via Library of Congress
“Jeer not at any Person whatsoever”
~ Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World. By the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodified and digested under distinct Heads, With Additions, By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: Containing Every Instruction necessary to complete the GENTLEMAN and MAN OF FASHION; to teach him a Knowledge of Life, and make him well received in all Companies, 1786
via Internet Archive
~ The House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Pastry, Pickling, Collaring, &c., by Mrs. Sarah Harrison, 1760
~ Every Woman Her Own House-Keeper; or, The Ladies’ Library, printed for James Ridgway, 1796
~ A Little Pretty Pocket-Book: Intended For the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly, Isaiah Thomas, 1787.
via Library of Congress
“Throw not any Thing under the Table”
If you are an American and joining your friends and family for Thanksgiving dinner today, please keep this important advice in mind.
~ Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World. By the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodified and digested under distinct Heads, With Additions, By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: Containing Every Instruction necessary to complete the GENTLEMAN and MAN OF FASHION; to teach him a Knowledge of Life, and make him well received in all Companies, 1786
via Internet Archive
~ The New York Directory for 1786 (1905 reprint)
via Columbia University Libraries
“To prevent complaints, generally arising from employing unexperienced Clerks, Mr. Franks has lately engaged a young man from Dublin, of unexceptional abilities.”
~ The Wonderful Kanguroo, 1794
via National Library of Australia
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“…Ocular Demonstration will exceed all that Words can describe, or Pencil delineate.”
~ Manuscript Cookbook of D. Petre, 1705
via University of Pennsylvania Library
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“For a Cough
Take sallet oyle a quart & sack of each an equall quantity heat ym before ye fire & rub ye soles of yr feet.”
~ The English Housewife, by Gervase Markham, 1615
I believe that the “falling evil” was what we now know to be epilepsy.
The
Housekeeper’s Pocket-Book,
And Compleat
FAMILY COOK.
