"English Housewifry: Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery"

Elizabeth Moxon was an English writer known for her influential cookery book: English Housewifry. She has been called one of "the female pioneers of English culinary writing". This book served as an essential tool for home-makers and wives in England and around the world. Before her book gained popularity, the recipes available to people were those passed down by their mothers if they were so lucky.