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  • The professed cook: or, the modern art of cookery, pastry, and confectionary, made plain and easy. Consisting of the most approved methods in the French as well as English cookery. In which the French names of all the different dishes are given and explained, whereby every bill of fare becomes intelligible and familiar. Containing I. Of soups, gravy, cullis and broths ... XXII. Ratafias, and other cordials, &c. Including a translation of Les soupers de la cour [by Menon]; with the addition of the best receipts which have ever appeared in the French or English languages, and adapted to the London markets / [B Clermont].
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • The British housewife: or the cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion. Calculated for the service both of London and the country : and directing what is necessary to be done in the providing for, conducting, and managing a family throughout the year ... Together with the nature of all kinds of foods, and the method of suiting them to different constitutions; a bill of fare for each month, the art of marketing and chusing fresh provisions of all kinds... With the conduct of a family in respect of health; the disorders to which they are every month liable, and the most approved remedies for each and a variety of other valuable particulars, necessary to be known in all families ... / by Mrs. Martha Bradley.
  • The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published ... / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse].
  • The complete art of cookery, exhibited in a plain and easy manner. With directions for marketing, the season of the year for butchers' meat, poultry, fish, &c. : embellished with engravings, shewing the art of trussing, carving, etc. etc. etc / by Mrs. Glasse.