Transcribed by David Starner, Kevin Handy, and the Online Distributed Proofreader Team THE Country Housewife AND LADY'S DIRECTOR IN THE Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm. CONTAINING _Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines of all sorts_ _Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of Butter and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other useful Branches belonging to a Country Seat, in the most elegant manner for the Table._ _Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces._ _The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year._ _With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron._ By R. BRADLEY, Professor of Botany in the University of _Cambridge;_ and F.R.S. _The Sixth Edition_ _With Additions._ * * * * * To The LADY _WAGER_, Consort to the Right Honourable Sir _CHARLES WAGER_, One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, AND One of His Majesty's Most Honourable PRIVY-COUNCIL; _This Book is most humbly Dedicated, by_ _Her Ladyship's most Obedient,_ _and most Humble Servant,_ R. BRADLEY. * * * * * AN INDEX TO THE FIRST PART. A. Asparagus, preserv'd. Ditto Drest the _Dutch_ way. Ditto with Cream. Artichoakes, to dry. Ditto preserv'd. Ditto pickled. Ditto fryed. Ditto in Suckers, to eat raw. Apricot Wine. Alamode Beef. B. Brandy, Laurel. Birch-Wine. Brewing. Beef Cake-Soup. Ditto to Pot like Venison. Beef, to Collar. Brocoli, to boil. Butter, good in _Suffolk._ _Buckingham_-Cheese, to make. Butter, why good or bad. Ditto in general. Butter, what Milk is good. Ditto made over the Fire. Ditto wash'd. Ditto churn'd in Summer. Ditto churn'd in Winter. Beans, preserv'd, the Winter. Berberries, to pickle. Beet-Roots, red, to pickle. Ditto fryed. Boar's-Head imitated. Brawn, to Collar. Boar, when to be put up for Brawn. C. Capon, to dress. Carps, to stew. Cellars, which are best. Cowslip-Wine. Cheese, spoiled. Ditto what concerns its Goodness. Ditto why bad in _Suffolk._ Ditto Good from one sort of Cattle. Ditto preserv'd in Oil. Ditto Marygold. Ditto Sage. Ditto Sage in figures. Ditto _Cheshire._ Ditto _Cheshire_ with Sack. Ditto _Gloucestershire._ Cheese, Cream. Ditto Why the Aversion to it. Churns, the Sorts. Clove-Gilly-Flower Syrup. Cucumbers, to pickle. Codlings, to pickle, green. Ditto to pickle Mango. Cherry-Brandy. Cherry-Beer. Cherry-Cordial. Cherries distill'd. Cherry, Cornelian, in Brandy. Calf's Feet Jelly. Cockles, pickled. Capons, to set upon Eggs. D. Dairy, how to build. Different Sorts of Goosberries. Different Sorts of Currans. Ducks, wild, to roast. Ducks, wild, hash'd. E.