Domestic Economy, and Cookery: For Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks for Consumption; Receipts for Sea-faring Men, Travellers, and Children's Food : Together with Estimates and Comparisons of Dinners and Dishes ... |
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Page 5 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 99 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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| Title | Domestic Economy, and Cookery: For Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks for Consumption; Receipts for Sea-faring Men, Travellers, and Children's Food : Together with Estimates and ... Defining gender Defining gender, 1450-1910: Domesticity and the family |
| Author | Lady |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 691 pages |
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