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 chusing 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

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  • 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 chusing 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
  • Young woman's best companion
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Imprint
London : printed for S. Crowder, on London-Bridge; and H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Pater-noster-Row, 1759. The third edition. Corrected and greatly improved by the author: ...; ..
Added name
Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller. ; Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, bookseller.
Publication year
1759
ESTC No.
N509089
Grub Street ID
396864
Description
[4], 163, [1] p. : ill. ; 12°.
Note
Price from imprint in square brackets: Price 1s. 6d

Edition statement continues, after "author:" particularly with the 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

Reissued in 1770 with a cancel title (ESTC N2143)

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