Delightes for Ladies"Delightes for Ladies is a book of recipes and household hints for women, written by Sir Hugh Plat (perhaps best remembered for Floreas Paradise) and published in London in 1602. Its full title is Delightes for ladies: to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. A successful book in its day, some of the recipes have survived to be in relatively common use even 400 years later, in particular the various mixed alcoholic beverages"--Wikipedia. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xi |
Elizabethan countryhouse management | xxvii |
Select Bibliography | lxxxix |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Delightes for Ladies |
| Author | Sir Hugh Plat |
| Contributor | George Edwin Fussell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Lockwood, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 106 pages |
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