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The English and French cook : describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigassied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes: together with all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T. P. J. P. R. C. N. B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
Date: 1674
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The compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry.
Date: 1662
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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities. Or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. 1. The art of distilling. 2. Making artificial wines. 3. Making syrups. ... 14 The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour and seemly deportment, &c together with a new accession of many curious things and matters, profitable to the female sex, not published in the former editions.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1696
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The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery : Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready ways for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, with variety of sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of pastes; the best directions for all sorts of kickshaws, also the terms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for all seasons of the year, with other a-la-mode curiosities. The fourth edition, with large additions throughout the whole work: besides two hundred figures of several forms for all manner of bak'd meats, (either flesh, or fish) as pyes, tarts, custards, cheesecakes, and florentines, placed in tables, and directed to the pages they appertain to. Approved by the fifty five years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of great honour.
May, Robert, 1588-Date: 1678
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Dictionarium domesticum, being a new and compleat houshold [sic] dictionary, for the use both of city and country ... / By N. Bailey.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1736
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The prudent housewife: or, complete English cook, for town and country : Being the newest collection of the most genteel, and least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery ... / by Mrs. Fisher, of Richmond.
Fisher, Lydia.Date: [1800?]
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The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. ... consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print / by Elizabeth Raffald.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: [1810?]
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The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published... To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. And also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1784
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The true preserver and restorer of health : being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children. Selected from, and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe. Together with Excellent directions for cookery; as also for preserving, and conservint, and making all sorts of metheglin, sider, cherry-wine, &c. With the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat, and for distilling the choicest cordial waters without wood; coals, candle, or oyl. The second edition with additions. Published for the publick-good by G. Hartman, Chymist.
Hartman, G. (George)Date: 1695
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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1687
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The family-dictionary; or, Houshold companion : wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health, prevention of sickness, and curing the several diseases, distempers, and grievances, incident to men, women, and children. Also, directions for making oils, ointments, salves, cordial-waters, powders, pills, bolus's, lozenges, chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales, and other liquors, &c. and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, barks, minerals, and parts of living creatures, used in medicinal potions, &c. Likewise, directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fish, fowl, seasoning, garnishing, sauces, and serving-up in the best and most acceptable manner. The whole art of pastry, conserving, preserving, candying, confectioning, &c. Also, the way of making all sorts of perfumes, beautifying-waters, pomatums, washes, sweet-balls, sweet-bags, and essences: taking spots and stains out of garments, linen, &c. and preserving them from moths, &c. Washing point, sarsnets, and restoring faded linen; and scowering, or brightning tarnished gold, or silver lace, plate, &c. Together, vvith the art of making all sorts of English vvines, as currants, cherries, gooseberries, and cyder, mead, metheglin, &c. And the art of fining, and recovering foul and faded wines. The mystery of pickling, and keeping all sorts of pickles throughout the year. To which is added, as an appendix, the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare in all seasons of the year. With the art of carving. And many other useful matters. / By J.H.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]
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A Queens delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving and candying : as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters : never before published.
Date: 1671
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The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery : Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
Date: 1694
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The English art of cookery, according to the present practice. Being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new ... / With bills of fare for every month in the year, neatly and correctly engraved on twelve copper-plates.
Briggs, Richard.Date: 1794
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A book of cookery and the order of meates to be served to the table, both for flesh and fish dayes : with many excellent wayes for the dressing of all usuall sorts of meats ... with their proper saw[c]es ... : likewise for making many precious waters with divers approved medicines for.
Dawson, ThomasDate: 1650
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1603
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The second part of the good hus-wiues iewell : Where is to be found most apt and readiest wayes to distill many wholsome and sweet waters. In which likewise is shewed the best maner in preseruing of diuers sorts of fruits, & making of sirrops. With diuers conceits in cookerie with the booke of caruing.
Dawson, ThomasDate: 1597
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The frugal housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / [Susannah Carter].
Carter, Susannah.Date: 1795
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The complete English cook, or, Prudent housewife : being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing ... Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant / by Ann Peckham of Leeds ... [etc.].
Peckham, Ann.Date: [1790?]
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Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk.
Date: [2017]
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The treasury of commodious conceits, and hidden secrets : commonly called the good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of hir housholde. Meete and necessarye for the profitable vse of al estates. Gathered out of sundrye experyments, lately practised by men of greate knowledge: and now amplified and inlarged with diuers necessary and newe additions.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: Anno. 1584
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A complete collection of cookery receipts : (consisting of near four hundred), which have been taught upwards of fifty years, with great reputation / by Susanna, Elizabeth, and Mary Kellet.
Kellet, Susanna.Date: 1780
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The second part of The good hus-wiues iewell : where is to be found most apt and readiest wayes to distill many wholesome and sweete waters : in which (likewise) is shewed the best manner in preseruiug [sic] diuers sortes of fruites, and making of sirrops : with diuers conceites in cookerie : with The booke of caruing.
Dawson, ThomasDate: 1606
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The widowes treasure : plentifully furnished with sundry precious and approoued secretes in phisicke and chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankinde : hereunto are adioyned, sundry pretie practises and conclusions of cookerie : with many profitable and holesome medicines for sundrie diseases in cattell.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1588
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The Court & kitchin of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwel : the wife of the late usurper, truly described and represented, and now made publick for general satisfaction.
Date: 1664