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The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / by John Farley.
Farley, John, active 18th century
Date
1787
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The family friend, or housekeeper's instructor : containing a very complete collection of original & approved receipts in every branch of cookery, confectionery, &c / By Priscilla Haslehurst.
Haslehurst, Priscilla.
Date
1802
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Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing the most approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties. Trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.
Hammond, Elizabeth
Date
1815
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The experienced English house-keeper, for the use and ease of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. Wrote purely from practice, And dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as House-Keeper. Consisting of near 800 original receipts, most of which never appeared in print. Part First, Lemon Pickle, Browning for all Sorts of Made Dishes, Soups, Fish, plain Meat, Game, Made Dishes both hot and cold, Pyes, Puddings, &c. Part Second, All Kind of Confectionary, particularly the Gold and Silver Web for covering of Sweetmeats, and a Desert of Spun Sugar, with Directions to set out a Table in the most elegant Manner and in the modern Taste, Floating Islands, Fish Ponds, Transparent Puddings, Trifles, Whips, &c. Part Third, Pickling, Potting, and Collaring, Wines, Vinegars, Catchups, Distilling, with two most valuable Receipts, one for refining Malt Liquors, the other for curing Acid Wines, and a correct List of every Thing in Season in every Month of the Year. By Elizabeth Raffald.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.
Date
1769
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Lemco dishes for all seasons : containing 208 recipes for articles in season each month, together with invalid dishes, breakfast dishes and sweets, and 75 menus for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners / Eva Tuite.
Tuite, Eva
Date
[1905?]
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Antiquitates culinariae ; or, curious tracts relating to the culinary affairs of the old English / with a preliminary discourse, notes and illustrations by Richard Warner.
Date
1791
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The housekeeper's guide; or, A plain and practical system of domestic cookery / By the author of "Cottage comforts".
Copley, Esther
Date
1834
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Still room cookery : recipes old and new / by Mrs. C.S. Peel.
Peel, C. S., Mrs
Date
1905
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The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery ... including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds ... / originally published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason.
Mason, Charlotte
Date
1787
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The professed cook: or, the modern art of cookery, pastry, and confectionary, made plain and easy. Consisting of the most approved methods in the French as well as English cookery. In which the French names of all the different dishes are given and explained, whereby every bill of fare becomes intelligible and familiar. Containing I. Of soups, gravy, cullis and broths ... XXII. Ratafias, and other cordials, &c. Including a translation of Les soupers de la cour [by Menon]; with the addition of the best receipts which have ever appeared in the French or English languages, and adapted to the London markets / [B Clermont].
Clermont, B
Date
1776
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