Introduction to Elizabeth Raffald Contributor(s): Appleton, Suze (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544033079 ISBN-13: 9781544033075 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Social History |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.44 lbs) 142 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 wife. From the age of 15 she was in domestic service as a housekeeper to great families including the Warburtons of Arley Hall, Cheshire, where she married the head gardener and at the age of 30 started her career in business in Manchester. She began with catering, included a school and employment office before writing a cookbook which contained her own original, innovative recipes, giving us wedding cake, stock cubes, Eccles cakes and much more that we take for granted. She went on to gain a huge reputation for her confectionery skills, while running shops and a coaching inn, giving financial aid to the only newspaper in Manchester at the time, producing the town's first ever directory in 1772, supporting several poor widows of the area, collaborating on a book of midwifery, and having 9 children. |