Elizabeth Raffald

Elizabeth Raffald was an English businesswoman, remembered chiefly for her 1769 book The Experienced English Housekeeper.

Raffald was born in Doncaster in 1733. Between 1748 and 1763 she was employed as a housekeeper by several families, including the Warburtons of Arley Hall in Cheshire, where she met her future husband, John Raffald, Arley Halls head gardener. In 1763 the couple moved to Manchester, where Elizabeth opened a confectionery shop and John sold flowers and seeds at a market stall. She also ran a cookery school and outside catering business from the shop, supervising formal dinner parties for the new money of Manchester. They hadchildren, onlydaughters survived to grow up.

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