The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet by active 1670 Hannah Woolley
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"The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet" by Hannah Woolley is a cookery book published in 1670. This influential household management guide contains nearly 600 recipes spanning medicinal cordials, sweet-meats, meat dishes, and pastries. The work includes notable recipes for trifle, gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and the first known Sussex pond pudding. Woolley addresses female readers from ladies to gentlewomen, offering practical instructions for managing kitchens and servants while incorporating ingredients from both
traditional English cooking and the New World. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Woolley, Hannah, active 1670 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet |
| Credits | Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from Scans from Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | TX: Technology: Home economics |
| Subject | Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 14377 |
| Release Date | Dec 18, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 524 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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