The experienced English housekeeper: for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks; written purely from practice; consisting of several hundred ... most of which never appeared in print - Softcover

Raffald, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 374117596X ISBN 13: 9783741175961

Publisher: Hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

The experienced English housekeeper - for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks; written purely from practice; consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1795. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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About the Author:

Mrs. Raffald (1733-1781) was an unusual and energetic entrepreneur. Not only was she a brilliant cook and housekeeper (she worked in several households, the last of which, Arley Hall in Cheshire, was where she met and married the gardener, John Raffald), but she also ran a successful shop and catering business in Manchester, compiled the first street directory there, started the first servant's registry, used newspaper advertising to some effect to publicise her various businesses, and ran the King's Head in Salford while coping with a family of daughters and a profligate husband. At the King's Head she started compiling recipes, training young ladies and eventually published her book which was an instant success. Queen Victoria passed off several of her receipts as her own, and countless family recipe books include at least some of them. Roy Shipperbottom was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1930 and died in Laon, France in just before the publication of Southover's edition of The Experienced English Housekeeper for which he provided the introduction. He pursued careers in building, bookbinding and academia, retiring as a senior lecturer in humanities from North Manchester College in 1982. By that time, the history of food had become his main interest and Elizabeth Raffald, his passion. He spent twenty years researching her life and work from sources in Lancashire and Yorkshire and at Arley Hall where she was housekeeper.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hansebooks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 374117596X
• ISBN 13: 9783741175961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412