The London art of cookery and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan, made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook and servant in the kingdom. Containing ... : To which is added, an appendix containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / by John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farley, John, active 18th century.

Contributor:

Fielding, John (Bookseller), bookseller.

Scatcherd, James, 1755-1828, bookseller.

Scatcherd and Whitaker, bookseller.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Physical Description:

xx, 459 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

orre d.55 k.es remo (3) 1783 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Fielding ... and J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, ..., 1783.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶.

"Appendix"--Page 416-459.

(from title page) Proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions. Roasting and boiling all sorts of butches meat, poultry, game, and fish. Sauces for every occasion. Soups, broths, stews, and hashes. Made dishes, ragoos, and fricassees. All sorts of pies and puddings. Proper instructions for dressing fruits and vegetables. Pickling, potting, and preserving. The preparation of hams, tongues, and bacon. The whole art of confectionary. The preparation of sugars. Tarts, puffs, and pasties. Cakes, custards, jams and jellies. Drying, candying, and preserving fruits, &c. Made wines, cordial waters and malt liquors.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

RBC copy imperfect: copy is incomplete, wanting pages 435-459.

RBC copy acquired in from Addison & Sarova Auctioneers (Lot 177, August 20, 2016 sale)

Cited in:

English short title catalogue T131756

OCLC:

316755260