The cook's oracle
containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavouring essences : the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure, the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician.
The 4th ed., to which are added one hundred and thirty new receipts for pastry, preserves, puddings ...
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Author
Contributions
- Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
1822 - Printed for A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson & Co., Cheapside, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
136,250 words, Guess
Page Count
545 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7044883M
- OCLC Control Number1584266
- Internet Archivecooksoracleconta00kitc
- Library of Congress Control Number75316002
- LibraryThing2244034
Classifications
- DDC641.5/942
- LCCTX717 .K6 1822
Other Editions
- The cook's oracle: containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavouring essences : the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure, the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician.
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