The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery. Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, with variety of sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of pastes; the best directions for all sorts of kickshaws; also the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for all seasons of the year, with other a la mode curiosities. The second edition, with large additions throughout the whole work; besides two hundred figures of several forms for all manner of bake't meats, (either flesh or fish) as pyes, tarts, custards, cheesecakes, and florentines, placed in tables and directed to the pages they appertain to. Approved by the fifty five years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of great honour.

Format:

• Microformat

Author/Creator:

• May, Robert, 1588-

Series:

• Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1764:2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
• Cooking, English.

Physical Description:

• 32 unnumbered pages, 461 pages, 31 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves : illustrations, portrait
• 35 mm
• monochrome
• service copy
• positive

Other Title:

• Accomplisht cook
• Art and mystery of cookery.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by R. Wood, for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange, 1665.

Notes:

• With folded leaf bound between pages 224 and 225, and between pages 240 and 241.
• With ten final advertisement leaves.
• Includes index.
• Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
• Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1764:2). s1987 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) M1392.

OCLC:

1085278283