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The Compleat family cook : Consisting of a collection of near a thousand curious and uncommon receipts in soops, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellifs, made-wines, &c. with figures for orderly placing the dishes; and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole. A book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial and splendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of many years practice and experience. Revised and corrected by an eminent Cook, 1766. To which is added, the London and country brewer. With a copious treatise on malt liquors. To which likewise is added, the art of clear starching, ironing, &c. to which also is added, the servant maid's best companion. Consisting of necessary cautions and prudencial advice such as if duely observed cannot sail making them easy and happy in themselves, either in the capacity of a servant, or mistress of a family.

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Format:
Book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (216p. ) ill. ;
Other Title:
Compleat family cook
Place of Publication:
Hull : Prined by J. Rawson, and Son, 1766.
Notes:
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, N66066.
OCLC:
508320495

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