The modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion. : Being the largest and best collection of new receipts for dressing all sorts of meat, fowl, and fish; and for making ragoo's, fricassees, and pastry of all sorts. In a method never before published. With instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the tables of princes, ambassadors, noblemen, and magistrates: As also the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. Adorned with copper plates, exhibiting the order of placing the different dishes, &c. on the table, in the most polite way. To which are prefixed, directions for a house steward. By Mr. Vincent La Chapelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Chapelle, Vincent.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookbooks--Early works to 1800.

Cookbooks.

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,iv pages, 1 unnumbered page,x-xl,432 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Modern cook

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox, on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLI. [1751]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

A reissue of the third edition of 1744, with a cancel titlepage.

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 British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T155091.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.