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. Containing, Proper Directions for the Choice of all Kinds of Provisions. Instructions for trussing Poultry. Roasting and Boiling all Sorts of Butchers Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish. Baking, Broiling, and Frying. Sauces for every Occasion. Soups, Broths, Stews, and Hashes. Ragoos and Fricassees. Made Dishes, both plain and elegant. All Sorts of Pies and Puddings. Pancakes and Fritters. Proper Instructions for dressing Fruits and Vegetables. Pickling, Potting, and Preserving. The Preparation of Hams, Tongues and Racon. To keep Garden Stuffs and Fruits in Perfection. The whole Art of Consectionary. The preparation of Sugars. Tarts, Puffs, and Pastres. Cakes, Custards, Jams, and Jellies. Drying, Candying, and Presurving Fruits, &c. Elegant Ornaments for Entertainments. Instructions for Carving Necessary Articles for Sea-Saring Persons. Made Wines, Cordial Waters, and Malt Liquors. 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. By John Farley, Principal Cook at the London Tavern. The Seventh Edition. With the Addition of many new and elegant Receipts in the various Branches of Cookery.

  • Farley, John, active 18th century.
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[1792]
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London : printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law No. 12, B. Law, No. 13, Ave-Maria-Lane; and G. and T. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1792]

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vi,[26],467,[5]p.,plates : port. ; 80.

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The seventh edition. With the addition of many new and elegant receipts ..

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ESTC T112653

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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