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''The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion'' is a cookery book written by Eliza Smith and first published in London in 1727. It became extremely popular, running through 18 editions in fifty years. It was the first cookery book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies of America: it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1742. It contained the first published recipe for "katchup". The book includes recipes not only for foods but for wines, cordial-waters, medicines and salves. ==Book== The title page describes ''The Compleat Housewife'' as a The book was the first to publish a recipe for "Katchup"; it included mushrooms, anchovies and horseradish.〔〔Smith, 1739. Page 91.〕 It was not the first to bear the title ''The Compleat Housewife'', as a book of this name was published in 1615 by Gervase Markham. Little is known of Smith beyond what she writes of herself in the preface. She spent her life working as a cook or housekeeper in wealthy households, and unlike Elizabeth Raffald who left service to run her own shop, continued in that profession despite the success of her book. It is possible that she worked at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire. She is critical of cookery books written by men who conceal their secrets, preventing readers from using their recipes successfully.〔 The preface contains the following passage: The passage was lightly adapted from an earlier book with a similar title, John Nott's ''The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary: or, the Accomplish’d Housewife’s Companion'' (1723), which declared he had added an introduction because fashion had made it as odd for a book to be printed without one as for a man to be seen "in church without a neck cloth or a lady without a hoop-petticoat."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Compleat Housewife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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