The Country Housewife and Ladys Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profit

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Title: The Country Housewife and Lady's Director In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm
Author: Richard Bradley
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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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AN INDEX TO THE FIRST PART.
A.
Asparagus, preserv'd. Ditto Drest the Dutch way. Ditto with Cream. Artichoakes, to dry. Ditto preserv'd. Ditto pickled. Ditto fryed. Ditto in Suckers, to eat raw. Apricot Wine. Alamode Beef.
B.
Brandy, Laurel. Birch-Wine. Brewing. Beef Cake-Soup. Ditto to Pot like Venison. Beef, to Collar. Brocoli, to boil. Butter, good in _Suffolk._ _Buckingham_-Cheese, to make. Butter, why good or bad. Ditto in general. Butter, what Milk is good. Ditto made over the Fire. Ditto wash'd. Ditto churn'd in Summer. Ditto churn'd in Winter. Beans, preserv'd, the Winter. Berberries, to pickle. Beet-Roots, red, to pickle. Ditto fryed. Boar's-Head imitated. Brawn, to Collar. Boar, when to be put up for Brawn.
C.
Capon, to dress. Carps, to stew. Cellars, which are best. Cowslip-Wine. Cheese, spoiled. Ditto what concerns its Goodness. Ditto why bad in _Suffolk._ Ditto Good from one sort of Cattle. Ditto preserv'd in Oil. Ditto Marygold. Ditto Sage. Ditto Sage in figures. Ditto _Cheshire._ Ditto Cheshire with Sack. Ditto _Gloucestershire._ Cheese, Cream. Ditto Why the Aversion to it. Churns, the Sorts. Clove-Gilly-Flower Syrup. Cucumbers, to pickle. Codlings, to pickle, green. Ditto to pickle Mango. Cherry-Brandy. Cherry-Beer. Cherry-Cordial. Cherries distill'd. Cherry, Cornelian, in Brandy. Calf's Feet Jelly. Cockles, pickled. Capons, to set upon Eggs.
D.
Dairy, how to build. Different Sorts of Goosberries. Different Sorts of Currans. Ducks, wild, to roast. Ducks, wild, hash'd.
E.
Eels, their time of Breeding. Ditto in plenty. Eggs, to prepare six ways. Eels, to clear from Mud. Ditto to roast. Ditto to Pitchcot. Ditto to Collar. Elder-Flowers, to dry. Elder Vinegar. Elder-Wine, red. Ditto white. _English_-Wine.
F.
Fowls and Birds, the Difference. Fowl, to dress. Ditto to farce. Fricassee of Chickens, brown. Ditto white. Fish Gravey for Soups. Flounders, pickled. _Frontiniac_-Wine imitated. Fruits preserv'd for Tarts. _Florence_-Wine imitated. _Frontiniac_-Wine to make. Fowls, the Sorts. Fish, to boil firm. Fish boiled, the Sauce.
G.
Geese, when to buy. Ditto to fat. Ditto to roast. Ditto how to kill. Grapes, ripe early. Grape-Wine.
H.
Herb-Soup, the Foundation. Hops. Hare, to pot. Herbs, to dry. Hare coursed, how to keep. Ditto hunted, to dress. Ditto the Pudding for it. Ditto to roast. Hare, to stew. Hung-Beef. Herbs infused in Spirits.
L.
Larks, to dress.
M.
Malt, which is good. Ditto Liquor, to bottle. Mountain-Wine, to imitate. Milk, to be examin'd. Mace in Rennet. Mead,