The house-keeper's pocket book and compleat family cook
containing several hundred curious receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, brewing, baking, made wines, &c., with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. : to which is added, Every man his own doctor, shewing the nature and faculties of the different sorts of foods, whereby every man and woman may know what is good or hurtful to them.
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Author
Contributions
- Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
1776 - Printed for the booksellers in town and country, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Library of Congress Control Number75313834
- Open LibraryOL5242321M
Classifications
- DDC641.5942
- LCCTX705 .G542 1790
Subjects
Topics
Times
Genres
- Early works to 1800
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