The house-Keeper's pocket-book : and compleat family cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With plain and easy Instructions for preparing, and dressing every Thing suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. And Directions for ranging them in their proper Order. To which is prefix'd, Such a copious and useful Bill of Fare of all manner of Provisions in Season for every Month of the Year, that no Person need be at a Loss to provide an agreeable Variety of Dishes, at a moderate Expence. With Directions for making all Sorts of Wines, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, &c. and distilling Strong-Waters, &c. after the most approved Method. And Directions for managing and breeding Poultry to Advantage. Concluding with many excellent Prescriptions, of singular Efficacy in most Distempers incident to the Human Body; extracted from the Writings of the most eminent Physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Sarah, fl. 1733-1777.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookery--London--Early works to 1800.

Cookery.

Formulas, recipes, etc--London--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,[4],268,[36]p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The fifth edition, .. With the addition of .. tables.

Other Title:

House-Keeper's pocket-book

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill, [1751]

Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price 2 s. 6 d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T128956.

OCLC:

642357490