The house-keeper's pocket-book and compleat family cook
containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. : with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order : to which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year ... : with directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approved method : and directions for managing and breeding poultry to advantage : concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body, extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians
The fifth edition, corrected and improv'd, with the addition of four hundred genuine receipts, ... to which is added, easy tables of sums ready cast up ... also tables shewing the interest of money ...
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Word Count
67,000 words, Guess
Page Count
268 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2668802M
- OCLC Control Number14213211
- Library of Congress Control Number85665012
Classifications
- LCCTX705 .H3x 1751
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Topics
Genres
- Tables
- Early works to 1800
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- The house-keeper's pocket-book and compleat family cook: containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. : with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order : to which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year ... : with directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approved method : and directions for managing and breeding poultry to advantage : concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body, extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians
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