The modern cook: containing, instructions for preparing and ordering public entertainments for the tables of princes, Ambassadors, Noblemen, and Magistrates. As also, The least Expensive Methods of providing for private Families, in a very elegant Manner. With New Receipts for Dressing of Meat, Fowl, and Fish; and making Ragouts, Fricassees, and Pastry of all Sorts, in a Method, never before published. Adorned with Copper-Plates, Exhibiting the Order of Placing the different Dishes, &c. on the Table, in the most polite Way. By Mr. Vincent La Chapelle, Late Chief Cook to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield: And now Chief Cook to his Highness the Prince of Orange.

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MDCCXLIV. [1744]