Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing
everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble
feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two
and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He
instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine,
growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a
housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of
body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of
everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other
source from this period provides the same richness of information
in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his
abundant notes make The English Housewife readily accessible to the
contemporary reader.
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