Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following Heads: I. Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick, taught without the Help of a Master. II. The Compleat Market-Woman. III. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl and Fish. IV. For Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. V. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. VI. The Art and Terms of Carving Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. Vii. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. Viii. The Young Woman's Instructor for the right Spelling of Words used in Marketting, Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. &c. &c. To this edition are added, some plain and very necessary directions to maid-servants in general, and several useful Tables: Which renders it the Completest Book of the Kind ever published. The Compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this Book come as cheap as possible to the Purchasers, has, out of her Benevolence, fixed the Price at 1 s. 6 d. Bound; though it contains double the Quantity that is usually sold for that Sum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mary, fl. 1753.

Standardized Title:

Young woman's companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,193,[19]p. )

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Madam Johnson's present

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder Street; and W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1765]

Notes:

First published as 'Young woman's companion'.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: Price sewed, 1 s. 3 d. Bound 1 s. 6 d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, IV.613

English Short Title Catalog, T120878.

OCLC:

642323918