A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families / by a lady. With many new receipts ... [etc.].

  • Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828.
Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families / by a lady. With many new receipts ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    AOVERTISE.MENT. As the following directions were intended for the conduct of the families of the Authoress’s own daugli’ ters, and for the arrangement of their table, so as to unite a good figure with proper economy, she has avoided all excessive luxury, such as essence of ham, and that wasteful expenditure of large quantities of meat for gravy, which so greatly contributes to keep up the price, and is no less injurious to those who eat, than to those whose penury obliges them to abstain. Many receipts are given for things, which being in daily use, the mode of preparing them may be supposed too well known to require a place in a cookerj’-book ; yet how rarely do we meet with fine melted butter, good toast and water, or well-made cofiee ! She makes no apology for minuteness in some articles, or for leaving others unnoticed, because she does not write for professed cooks. This little work would have been a treasure to herself when she first set out in life, and she therefore hopes it may prove useful to others. In that expecta- tion it is given to the Public; and as she will receive from it no emolument, so she trusts it will escape with- out censure.