The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook: Containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &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. also a copious and useful bill of fare, of all manner of provisions in season, for every month in the year. Together with directions for making all sorts of wine, mead, cyder, shrub, distilling strong-waters, &c. for brewing ale and small-beer in a cleanly, frugal manner: and for managing and breeding poultry to advantage. Likewise several useful family receipts for taking out stains, preserving furniture, cleaning plate, taking iron-moulds out of linen, &c. as also easy tables, of sums ready cast up, from one farthing to one pound, for the use of those not conversant in arithmetic: and tables shewing the interest of money from 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 per cent. from

People / Organizations

• Sarah Harrison (Author)
• Richard Ware II ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")
• Stanley Crowder ("printed for")
• Thomas Lowndes ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Crowder S. Bladon, R. Ware, Richardson and Urquhart, R. Horsefield, and W. Hayes, M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]

Publication year

1777

ESTC No.

N17342

Grub Street ID

6810

Description

[4],208,[32]p. ; 12°.

Uncontrolled note

Initial pagination from L. prelims. = tp. [1-2], contents [3-4], dedication leaf 1-2 (unnumbered)