THE NEW LONDON FAMILY COOK: or, Town and country housekeeper's guide : comprehending directions for marketing, with illustrative plates, on a principle entirely new : general observations, and bills of fare for every week in the year : practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, and for dressing fish, venison, butcher's meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties : with the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. : cookery for the sick, and for the poor : directions for carving and a glossary of the most generally received French and English terms in the culinary art : also a selection of valuable family recipes, in dyeing, perfumery, &c. : instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening : and an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. ; concluding with an alphabetical list of the most respectable manufacturers and dealers in the various articles connected with domestic economy : forming in the whole a most complete family instructor.

Author: MacDonald, Duncan.
Title: THE NEW LONDON FAMILY COOK: or, Town and country housekeeper's guide : comprehending directions for marketing, with illustrative plates, on a principle entirely new : general observations, and bills of fare for every week in the year : practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, and for dressing fish, venison, butcher's meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties : with the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. : cookery for the sick, and for the poor : directions for carving and a glossary of the most generally received French and English terms in the culinary art : also a selection of valuable family recipes, in dyeing, perfumery, &c. : instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening : and an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. ; concluding with an alphabetical list of the most respectable manufacturers and dealers in the various articles connected with domestic economy : forming in the whole a most complete family instructor.
Description: London : Albion Press, printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, N.d. c.[1809]. 1st Ed. 630,[4]pp.,[ii]. Port. frontis., 10 plates. Pp.291-2 with silked tear, t.p. soiled, browning, contemporary blind embossed sheep, some marking, extremities rubbed, gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ Vicaire 545.

Keywords: ECONOMICS; COOKERY

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