The practice of cookery, pastry, pickling, preserving, etc. Containing figures of dinners, from five to nineteen dishes, and a full list of supper dishes. Also a list of things in season for every month in the year, and directions for choosing provisions: with two plates, showing the method of placing dishes upon a table, and the manner of trussing poultry, &c / By Mrs. Frazer.

  • Frazer, Mrs.
Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The practice of cookery, pastry, pickling, preserving, etc. Containing figures of dinners, from five to nineteen dishes, and a full list of supper dishes. Also a list of things in season for every month in the year, and directions for choosing provisions: with two plates, showing the method of placing dishes upon a table, and the manner of trussing poultry, &c / By Mrs. Frazer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, ' 1 HB arts of which we are about to treat are, like every other art, gradually advan- cing towards perfeffion ; and the more ra- p'd mud the progrefs be when tajle and fancy are united. Thefe indeed are fo par- ticularly requiiite in the arts of cookery and confefttonary, that much depend upon hem. It is therefore with a view to the that theprcfait w°rfe IS humbly offered to the public. The generality of books of this kind are raugitwrth fo many extravagant and ufe- 1efs receipts, and even fuel, of them 4 might be ufcfu, are written with fo little accurac,, or attentton to order or method, pernlexin ^ ^ them ««edingi; tmihehigfble “ -tally .heteneff7alVraTk7eand c * ^/ortho^h^S^ ab e know ed^ 0f thefe arts, as thofe who given examples o^tffn^Sd funple.