The director: or, Young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery. To which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables. Directions for carving, and to make wines. Likewise bills of fare for every month in the year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families. By Sarah Jackson. Collected for the use of her own family, and printed at the request of her friends

People / Organizations

• Sarah Jackson (Author)
• Stanley Crowder ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12, and R. Baldwin, No. 47, in Pater-noster-Row, 1770. A new edition, corrected and greatly improved by the author: ...; ..

Publication year

1770

ESTC No.

N2143

Grub Street ID

10809

Description

[4], 163, [1] p. : ill. ; 12°.

Note

Price from imprint in square brackets: Price 1s. 6d

Edition statement continues, after "author:" particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view shew regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or genteelest manner. With a cut of 13 dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste: not in any other book extant. Also several cuts representing the trussing of fowls, &c. Dr. Mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure. The Negro Cæsar's cure for poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake

A reissue of the sheets of the 1759 edition (ESTC N509089), with a cancel title

Signatures: A]2 (±A1) B-O]6 P]4.