Domestic economy, and cookery, for rich and poor; containing an account of the best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and other foreign dishes; preparations of broths and milks for consumption; receipts for sea-faring men, travellers, and children's food. Together with estimates and comparisons of dinners and dishes. The whole composed with the utmost attention to health, economy, and elegance / by a Lady.

Date:
1827
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Credit: Domestic economy, and cookery, for rich and poor; containing an account of the best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and other foreign dishes; preparations of broths and milks for consumption; receipts for sea-faring men, travellers, and children's food. Together with estimates and comparisons of dinners and dishes. The whole composed with the utmost attention to health, economy, and elegance / by a Lady. 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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    AND COOKERY. No nation has written more on the subject of economy than our own, and no nation has practised it less. In- deed, the mass of the population can receive little or no benefit from the clearest general precepts. When they are told economy is a good and useful thing, that it will secure a comfortable subsistence to their children in their infancy, and themselves in their old age, they hear and believe ; but this will never teach them that 3 lbs. of one sort of meat may be had for the same price as one of another*, or that they may make wholesome beer for themselves, at one eighth of the price that they pay, as their forefathers did, and their neighbours do, for poisonous porter. Such precepts must proceed from those that have devoted a considerable portion of their time to domestic concerns ; and in no work can they with more propriety be given than in a cookery-book, * Were I not afraid of frightening my reader?, I should have added, and that they may make one of these pounds go farther than three cooked in the ordinary way — This, however, the receipts will show. I once saw a French family, consisting of six grown persons, a child, and a jack-daw, who, by the by, was the heaviest of tile eight on the meat, dine on one pound of lean veal, made into a rich ragout, with mushrooms, morels, &c. (see receipt) and goose fat, the properties of which I have amply enlarged upon. This may astonish my country folks, as 1 assure them it did me j and in the expectation that the moral ot it may impress itself on others as it did on myself, 1 place it thus forward as being the lirst tiling that opened my eyes to the advantages of French cookery. I may further add, that this entire family was en- joying perfect health, and had never heard of many of those disorders, which, under the different appellation of nervous, bilious, &c. are so prevalent in this country. B t