The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. : Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts, arranged under the following heads: I. Rules for marketing. II. Boiling, roasting, and broiling flesh, fish, and fowls; and for making soups and sauces of all kinds. III. Making made dishes of all sorts, puddings, pies, cakes, fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, preservaing, and making wines in the best manner and taste. V. Potting and collaring; aspikes in jellies; favoury cakes, blamonge, ice creams and other creams, whips, jellies, &c. VI. Bills of fare for every month in the year; with a correct list of every thing in season for every month; illustrated with two elegant copper-plates of a first and second course for a genteel table. A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements. By Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, bart. and formerly in the service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir Thomas Sebright, bart. and other families of distinction, as house-keeper and cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Mary, of Newcastle

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Physical Description:

406 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London, M.DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N28279.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.