In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who would share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.
- ISBN10 0241956412
- ISBN13 9780241956410
- Publish Date 25 October 2011 (first published 7 April 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Imprint Penguin Group
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 135
- Language English