The lady's complete guide ; or cookery and confectionary in all its branches / ... to which is added...a list of every thing in season, several bills of fare, and an elegant collection of light dishes for supper; also the complete brewer ... likewise the family physician ... By Mrs. Mary Cole.

  • Cole, Mary, cook.
Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The lady's complete guide ; or cookery and confectionary in all its branches / ... to which is added...a list of every thing in season, several bills of fare, and an elegant collection of light dishes for supper; also the complete brewer ... likewise the family physician ... By Mrs. Mary Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gat) names, with references to the pages where it is to be found. For example:—to the receipt for making Cookery, page 1333 Mrs. Mafon’s Ladies Afifiant, page 198; Mrs. Raffald’s Experienced Englifh Houfekeeper, 155. I have only fometimes quoted fo many authori- ties—a frequent repetition would add to the bulk, but not the utility of the work. The beft of my judgment has been exercifed in fe- which, after proving their excellence, I regularly en- tered in my common-place book, The following {ervation in the productions of Clermont, Glafe, Ma/fon, Dalrymple, Dupont, Commo, Defang, Verno, Troas, De- rare .sa A eS ™% / ew. ee te me ” ge a ‘ ee oe ee r doe Br ots travagant, and almoft impracticable receipts, I have plicated difhes, are generally the moft excellent ; thofe have not efcaped my particular attention, as they are perfectly confiftent. with my plan of tafte, united I thould before have obferved, that in reading the printed, I foon perceived that every fubfequent writer had borrowed very largely from thofe who had pre- ceded. Mrs. Glaffe’s book contains the beft receipts and Mr. Farley*, have purfued fimilar fteps; but have ations, | That nothing might be omitted to render this per- : , } * If all the writers upon Cookery had acknowledged from whence they took their receipts, as I do, they would have acted with more candour by the public. ‘Their vanity to pafs for Au- formance