The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of Seven Hundred practical and approved Receipts, under the following Heads: I. Rules for Marketing. II. Boiling, Roasting, and Broiling Flesh, Fish, and Fowls; and for making Soups and Sauces of all Kinds. III. Making made Dishes of all Sorts, Puddings, Pies, Cakes, Fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, Preserving, and making Wines in the best Manner and Taste. V. Potting and Collaring: Aspikes in Jellies: savoury Cakes, Blamonge, Ice Creams and other Creams, Whips, Jellies, &c. VI. Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; with a correct List of every Thing in Season for every Month; illustrated with two elegant Copper-Plates of a First and Second Course for a genteel Table. By Mary Smith, Late House-Keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart. and formerly in the Service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir The Sebright, Bart. and other Families of Distinction, as House-Keeper and Cook.

Date:

1772