The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds anything of the kind ever yet published ... / By a lady [i.e. Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.
Date:
1755
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds anything of the kind ever yet published ... / By a lady [i.e. Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $ TO THE 7 Believe I have attempted a Branch of Cookery^ ■* rwhich Nobody has yet thought worth their while to write upon : But as 1 have both Jeen$ and found by Experience that the Generality of Servants are greatly wanting in that Points therefore I have taken upon me to infir ubl them in the befi Manner 1 am capable \ and\ I dare fayi that every Servant who can but read will be capable of making a tole- rable good Cook, and thofewho have the leaf Notiort of Cookery* can t mifs of being very good emu If I have not wrote in the high* polite Stile, I hope IJhall be forgiven ; for my Intention is to in^ firutd the lower Sorti and therefore mufi treat them in their own Way. For Example; when 1 bkl them lard a Fowl\ if I jhould bid them lard with large Lardoonsf they would not know what I meant: But when I jay they mufi lard with little Pieces of Ba¬ con, they know what I mean. So in many other Things in Cookery* the great Cools have fuch d high Way of exprejjing them (elves, that the poor Girls are at a Lofs to know what they mean i And