The English Housewife

Interesting voyage back in the kitchen of the 17th century.

I'm happy to report that this isn't one of those books where some digitization service scanned it and everyone else is just churning out prints of the PDF. No. This book is beautifully typeset and edited, eminently readable, and very thoroughly researched and footnoted.There is a LOT of information in here, including medicine, food, cosmetics, textiles, dyeing, and malting (among others - this is just what I remember off the top of my head).

Ordered this book after watching a show that mentioned it. Book was in excellent condition. A must for history buffs who enjoy reading about how people lived and managed 100 years ago

He used alot of sources that were not orginally his and he actually admits he does a good job of taking information and condensing it and putting it all together, after reading the intro I wonder how much of the work is really his. However the section on how to heal things like, burns is hilarious and I wonder how the poor victims of this cure turned out.

Great book! Very informative and helpful to have something written in the period.

Good early "cookbook".

The English Housewife is the primary text from which many other books on Elizabethan Women derive much of their information. First written in 1615, it gives "a moste excellent account of the duties and knowledge of the husewyfe". Of interest to womens and renaissance history buffs, as well as re-enactors.

This is one of my favourite books for information about Women's lives in the 17th century.A fabulous resource for recipes, herbalists, fabric productions for dyeing, wool hemp and flax.I'm going to bind this paperback with leather so I can use it whilst taking part in Living History displays.

purchased as a gift... which went down well.

Just what I needed for my research

Worth the long wait for delivery

As described and quick delivery.