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The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and c...

The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and c...

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The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery In All Its Various Branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; With The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Persection British Wines; And Proper Rules For Brewing Malt Liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To Which IS Added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated With Engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With Copper-Plates, displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so New a Plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.

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The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery In All Its Various Branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; With The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Persection British Wines; And Proper Rules For Brewing Malt Liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To Which IS Added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated With Engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With Copper-Plates, displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so New a Plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.

Publisher

London : printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, Holborn-Hill, [1790?]

Date

[1790?]

Record Identifier

74VvbxXZGNPd

MMS ID

991014988529702626

Language

English

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Physical content

456,[24]p.,plates ; 8°.

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, Holborn-Hill, [1790?]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1790?]

Access and use

Access Conditions

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

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Full title

The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery In All Its Various Branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; With The Whole Art of Confec...

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Notes

General note

In this issue "bills of fare for every month in the year" in title is in capitals and the imprint address in imprint is "Holborn-Hill"

Published in 12 parts.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

The final 12 leaves contain an index and a list of subscribers.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T127430.

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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Record Identifier

74VvbxXZGNPd

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

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MMS ID

991014988529702626