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. and directions for ranging them in their proper order. Also a copious and useful bill of fare, of all manner of provisions in season, for every month in the year; so that no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety, at a moderate expence. Together with directions for making all sorts of wine, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approved methods: 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 table

People / Organizations

• Sarah Harrison (Author)
• Richard Ware I ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, M.DCC.LVII. [1757]

Added name

Ware, Richard (Bookseller), bookseller.

Publication year

1757

ESTC No.

N3514

Grub Street ID

23422

Description

[4], 215, [25], 36, [8] p. : ill. ; 12°.

Note

Below imprint on title page: (Price 2s. 6d.)

Woodcut tail-pieces; woodcut factotums; woodcut ornaments

Includes index.