The useful and entertaining family miscellany: containing the complete English housekeeper's companion. In which are near five hundred receipts Cookery, Pastry, Preserving. Making Wines, Candying, and Pickling. With plain and very easy Instructions for chusing All Sorts of Eatables. Also, Directions for Carving, with several Cuts explaining in the easiest Manner the best Way of trussing Hares, and Fowls; with Forms of placing Disnes of a Table, either in the middling or genteelest Taste. By Mrs. Isabella Moore, Who was Twenty Years a worthy and frugal Housekeeper in a private Gentleman's Family at Duffield, near Derby. To which are added, the genuine receipts for compounding Mr. Ward's principal medicines. Also, Every One his own Physician, Being A complete Collection of efficacious Remedies For every Disease incident to the Human Body, with plain Instructions for their common Use; very necessary to be had in all Families, residin in the Country. Compiled at the Command of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Likewise, the new English syren; or, delightful songster. Consisting of a Collection of One Hundred approv'd Songs, suited for those who delight in Harmony, Decency, and good Sense.

  • Moore, Isabella.
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1766
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London : printed for Thomas Palmer, in the year, 1766.

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[3],iii-vii,112p. : ill. ; 80.

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