The house-keeper's pocket-book; and compleat family cook. Containing above seven 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. To which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year, that no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. With directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire

People / Organizations

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

Imprint

London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner, Warwick Lane, 1739. The second edition, corrected and improv'd, with the addition of four hundred genuine receipts, sent to the author by several worthy persons.; ..

Added name

Ware, Richard (Bookseller), bookseller.

Publication year

1739

ESTC No.

T36706

Grub Street ID

266600

Description

iv, [4], 263, [17] p. ; 12°.

Note

Below imprint in square brackets: Price 2 s. 6 d

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initial; woodcut factotums

Includes index

Signatures: A]4] B-M]1]2] N]8.