The cook and housewife's manual : a practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management; containing a compendium of French cookery ... To which is added, a comprehensive treatise on domestic brewing / by Mistress Margaret Dods.

  • Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The cook and housewife's manual : a practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management; containing a compendium of French cookery ... To which is added, a comprehensive treatise on domestic brewing / by Mistress Margaret Dods. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advertisement to fourth edition. In once more making our acknowledgments to the public, and presenting a new Edition of the Cook and Housewife’s Manual, professing to he improved and enlarged, with the single view of increasing its work-day, practical utility, we take leave to state in what manner this object has been accomplished. The improvements, which run more or less through every section of the Volume, are most apparent in the Chapters, Made-Dishes, French and English, Ltqueurs, Pastry, Curing Meats, and Miscel- laneous information, of the kind which is considered important to those for whom the Work is principally intended—descending to the cellar and dairy, and mounting to the dressing-room. These improvements we owe in part to the judicious hints and corrections of practical cooks, but chiefly to the contributions of ladies in different quarters, well qualified, by expe- rience and superior intelligence, to enhance the value of a manual of this nature, both to the young cook and housekeeper. This kind of information, which lias been anxiously sought, generally relates to dishes and preparations which have been for some time ex- isting in the kitchens of the better classes in the three n