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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. [electronic resource] : Calculated for the greater ea...

The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. [electronic resource] : Calculated for the greater ea...

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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. [electronic resource] : Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts, arranged under the following heads: I. Rules for marketing. II. Boiling, roasting, and broiling flesh, fish, and fowls; and for making soups and sauces of all kinds. III. Making made dishes of all sorts, puddings, pies, cakes, fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, preservaing, and making wines in the best manner and taste. V. Potting and collaring; aspikes in jellies; favoury cakes, blamonge, ice creams and other creams, whips, jellies, &c. VI. Bills of fare for every month in the year; with a correct list of every thing in season for every month; illustrated with two elegant copper-plates of a first and second course for a genteel [sic] table. A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements. By Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, bart. and formerly in the service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir Thomas Sebright, bart. and other families of distinction, as house-keeper and cook.

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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. [electronic resource] : Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts, arranged under the following heads: I. Rules for marketing. II. Boiling, roasting, and broiling flesh, fish, and fowls; and for making soups and sauces of all kinds. III. Making made dishes of all sorts, puddings, pies, cakes, fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, preservaing, and making wines in the best manner and taste. V. Potting and collaring; aspikes in jellies; favoury cakes, blamonge, ice creams and other creams, whips, jellies, &c. VI. Bills of fare for every month in the year; with a correct list of every thing in season for every month; illustrated with two elegant copper-plates of a first and second course for a genteel [sic] table. A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements. By Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, bart. and formerly in the service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir Thomas Sebright, bart. and other families of distinction, as house-keeper and cook.

Publisher

Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London, M.DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Date

M.DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Record Identifier

74VK2wMNrlxb

MMS ID

991017896429702626

Language

English

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Physical content

406p.,plates ; 8°.

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Publisher

Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London, M.DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

M.DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. [electronic resource] : Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts, arranged under the following heads: I. Rules for marketing. II. Boiling, roasting, and broiling flesh, fish, and fowls; an...

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General note

Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.

Citation / References Note

ESTC N28279.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VK2wMNrlxb

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK2wMNrlxb

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MMS ID

991017896429702626