Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing the most approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties. Trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing the most approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties. Trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. As there is scarcely an individual who is not aware of the comforts resulting from a comfort- able and cleanly meal, it may appear to many labour lost to write a preface to a work which is designed to teach the most ignorant how to pre- pare such a repast. But in the daily progress of life, we cannot but observe a lamentable degree of ignorance among the generality of females on this subject; for we may often discover an amiable and accomplished woman, who possesses a general knowledge, with thfe exception of domestic cookery, which, I must be suffered to remark, is a subject of infinitely greater importance to her than superficial ac- quirements, whether we consider her as a daugh- ter, wife, or mother. In short, she can never be properly the mistress of a family unless she makes herself acquainted with its interior economy.