The modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion. [electronic resource] : 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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookery--Early works to 1800.

Cookery.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],iv,[1],x-xl,432p.,plates )

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

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

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T155091.

OCLC:

508999100