The Compleat Housewife
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The Compleat Housewife; or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion is a cookery book written by Eliza Smith and first published in London in 1727. It became popular, running through 18 editions in fifty years.
Frontispiece and title page of 14th edition, 1750
Recipe for battalia pye from Eliza Smith's The Compleat Housewife, 9th edition, 1739
Recipe "To Promote Breeding"