The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and Surgery. To which are added, Plain and easy Instructions for choosing Beef, Mutton, Veal, Fish, Fowl, and other Eatables. Directions for Carving, and to make Wines. Likewise Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families. By Sarah Jackson. Collected for the Use of her own Family, and printed at the Request of her Friends.

  • Jackson, Sarah, active 1754.
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[1770]
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London : printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12, and R. Baldwin, No. 47, in Pater-Noster-Row, [1770]

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[4],163,[1]p. : ill. ; 120.

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A new edition, corrected and greatly improved by the author: ..

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ESTC N2143

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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