The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates.

  • Farley, John, active 18th century.
Date:
1784
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Credit: The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    The Generality of Books of this Kind are fo grouped together, without Method or Order, as to render them exceedingly intricate and bewildering; and the Receipts written with fo much Carelejfnefs and Inaccuracy, as not only to render them exceedingly perplexing, but frequently totally unintelligible. In this Work, however, we hope, that Perfpicuity and Re- • gularity will be feen in every Step we have taken. We have divided the whole Book into feparate Parts, and thofe Parts into Chap- ters ; fo that the Reader has only to look into the Contents, and he will there find, at one View, the whole of that Branch of Cookery he may want to confult. The Utility of re- gularly clajjing every Thing in a Book of this Kind is too obvious to need Arguments to fup- port it. The greatef Care and Precaution have been tLiken 10 admit nothing inelegant, or prejudicial to the Confitution, in any of the Receipts in 4 this