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The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot.
Abbot, Robert, active 1800.Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]- Books
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The complete confectioner; or, housekeeper's guide: to a simple and speedy method of understanding the whole art of confectionary; the various ways of preserving and candying, dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &c. And the Method of keeping them Fresh And Fine All The Year Round; The Different Ways Of Clarifying Sugar; With Directions for making Fruit Pastes, Bomboons, Pastils, Compotes, Fruit Ices, Cream Ices, Marmalades, Jellies, Jams, Cakes, Puffs, Biscuits, Tarts, Custards, Cheesecakes, Sweetmeats, Fritters, Creams, Syllabubs, Blanc-Mange, Flummeries, Ornaments for grand Entertainments, Dragees, Syrups of all Kinds, Nicknacks and Trifles for Desserts, Strong Cordials, Oils, Simple Waters, Milk Punch that will keep 20 Years, and All Sorts of English Wines. Also, the art of making artificial fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for desserts for private families. By Mrs. H. Glass, author of The art of cookery, with considerable additions and corrections, by Maria Wilson.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1800- Books
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Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. Confectioner to her late majesty Queen Anne.
Eales, Mary.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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The complete confectioner; or, the whole art of confectionary: Forming A Ready Assistant to all Genteel Families; Giving them a Perfect Knowledge of Confectionary; with Instructions, Neatly Engraved on Ten Copper-Plates, How to Decorate a Table with Taste and Elegance, without The Expence or Assistance of a Confectioner. By a person, late an apprentice to the well-known Messrs. Negri and Witten, of Berkley-Square.
Nutt, Frederick.Date: 1790- Books
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The complete confectioner; or, the whole art of confectionary: Forming A Ready Assistant to all Genteel Families; Giving them a Perfect Knowledge of Confectionary; with Instructions, Neatly Engraved on Ten Copper-Plates, How to decorate a Table with Taste and Elegance, Without the Expence or Assistance of a Confectioner. By a person, late an apprentice to the well-known Messrs. Negri and Witten, of Berkley-Square.
Nutt, Frederick.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]