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Suze Appleton
Elizabeth Raffald was a tremendous character who lived in pre-industrial Manchester. She produced a must-have cook book, the town's first ever trade directory while running confectionery shops, cookery school and…
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Elizabeth was an amazing woman, achieving a great many things in a short time. She was an author, innovator, benefactor and entrepreneur as well as a mother and a wife…
Elizabeth Raffald was an amazing woman, achieving a great many things in a short time. She was an author, innovator, benefactor and entrepreneur as well as a mother and a…
Elizabeth Raffald
In 1772 Manchester was a fast growing town thanks to the rise in industrialisation. Elizabeth Raffald ran a shop, a cookery school, a coaching inn, a servant's employment register, wrote…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
The Experienced English Housekeeper - For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1786. Hansebooks is editor of…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
A collection of family dishes as well as recipes for grand dining.
This extra special edition, created in 2019, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the first printed recipe for wedding cake, contains a reproduction of the first edition of the original…
This is a retyped edition of the original 18th century book by Elizabeth Raffald, the forgotten woman of Manchester. Her first edition of The Experienced English Housekeeper contained around 800…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
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In 1772 Manchester was a fast growing town thanks to the rise in industrialisation. Elizabeth Raffald was a busy entrepreneur involving herself in numerous business ventures. She ran a shop…
Neil Buttery
Food historian Neil Buttery brings Elizabeth’s life to the fore and recounts the extraordinary rise and fall of Britain’s defining cook and housekeeper.
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