The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... to which are added one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts and also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery with a copious index / By a lady [i.e. Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.
Date:
1778
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... to which are added one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts and also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery with a copious index / By a lady [i.e. Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S PREFACE. CT^H E Art of Cookery, like all other arts, is fubjeSl to the variations of fajhion, and the improvements of tap.—Therefore, notwitbfianding the juft claim of Mrs. Glafle’s Book on that fabjedl to the approbation of the public, yet it was apprehended that a careful revifal might render this new edition of her work Jlill more accep¬ table and more ufeful: how far the editor has face eded, the public will determine: but to enable them to judge of his performance, it will be neceffary to give a Jketch of the improvements and alterations. J On a careful perufal of the laft edition, the editor noted the deficiencies in many receipts; which he hath fapplied, by adding what was wanting, and Testifying what ap¬ peared to be wrong in the compofitions, either as to quart- tity or quality* 1 \ 1 /« the chapter on Roafting and Boiling, he hath made feveral neceffary alterations in point c/time, in per¬ forming thofe operations of the culinary art; and given his directions in as plain, clear, and comprehenfive a man¬ ner as poffible, that the learner may not he at a lofs how to proceed. J . ge hfh alf° made many iterations and improvements tn the chapter on Made Difhes. In