The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting candying, collaring pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. together with directions for placing dishes on tables for entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and for more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The fourth edition. To which is added, a supplement, containing forty-nine receipts, never before printed.

Date:

[1790?]