Modern domestic cookery : based on the well-known work of Mrs. Rundell, but including all the recent improvements in the culinary art, founded on principles of economy and practical knowledge, and adapted for private families / by a lady. With illustrative woodcuts.

Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Modern domestic cookery : based on the well-known work of Mrs. Rundell, but including all the recent improvements in the culinary art, founded on principles of economy and practical knowledge, and adapted for private families / by a lady. With illustrative woodcuts. 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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    on the subject are valuable to those who are competent to carry out their receipts, yet, generally speaking, they are too scientific for the comprehension of common cooks, as well as too expensive for the greater number of private families. It has, therefore, been thought advisable to confine this work to a collection of plain and useful receipts, the result of experience and practice, adapted for those families of moderate fortune in which a certain degree of elegance is combined with attention to domestic economy. The number of editionsa which Mrs. Rundell’s celebrated work has passed through is the best test of its utility; and it is confidently expected that the number and value of the additional receipts and precepts which are here given will place it still higher in public estimation. Among the novel features in this volume as nowr offered to the public may be mentioned—1. the great increase in the number and variety of receipts; 2. a greater simplification of language in order to render the receipts more easy of com- prehension ; 3. the illustrative woodcuts; 4. the mode of printing in figures all numbers and quantities for the sake of clearness; and 5. the Tables for computing household accounts. All these improvements will, it is hoped, con- tribute much to the utility and popularity of the work. a Upwards of 210,000 copies have been sold. June, 1853.