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The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: occasion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Colius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Ancients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain'd in that Book. To which is added Horace's Art of poetry, in Latin. By the author of the Journey to London. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Beef Steak Club.
King, William, 1663-1712.Date: [1712]
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The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published. Containing, I. Of Roasting, Boiling, &c. II. Of Made-Dishes. III. Read this Chapter, and you will find how Expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. IV. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes fit for a Supper, or Side-Dish, and little Corner-Dishes for a great Table; and the rest you have in the Chapter for Lent. V. To dress Fish. VI. Of Soops and Broths. Vii. Of Puddings. Viii. Of Pies. IX. For a Fast-Dinner, a Number of good Dishes, which you may make use of for a Table at any other Time. X. Directions for the Sick. XI. For Captains of Ships. XII. Of Hog's Puddings, Sausages, &c. XIII. To Pot and Make Hams, &c. XIV. Of Pickling. XV. Of Making Cakes. XVI. Of Cheesecakes, Creams, Jellies, Whipt Syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of Made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muffins, &c. XVIII. Jarring Cherries, and Preserves, &c. XIX. To Make Anchovies, Vermicelli, Catchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French beans, &c. XX. Of Distilling. XXI. How to Market, and the Seasons of the Year for Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Fish, Herbs, Roots, &c. and Fruit. XXII. A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad-Dog. By Dr. Mead. XXIII. A Receipt to keep clear from Buggs. By a lady.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: M,DCC,XLVIII. [1748]
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The laird and farmer. A dialogue upon farming, trade, cookery, and their method of living in Scotland, balanc'd with that of England. In sixteen chapters. By the author of the Familiar catechism.
Author of the Familar catechism.Date: [1740?]
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The experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as Housekeeper: Consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print. Part I. Lemon Pickle, Browning for all Sorts of made Dishes, Soups, Fish, Plain Meat, Game, Made Dishes both hot and cold, Pyes, Puddings, &c. Part II. All Kinds of Confectionary, particularly the Gold and Silver Web for covering of Sweetmeats, and a Dessert of Spun Sugar with Directions to set out a Table, in the most elegant Manner, and in the modern Taste; Floating Islands, Fish-Ponds, Transparent Puddings, Trifles, Whips, &c. Part III: Pickling, Potting, and Collaring, Wines, Vinegars, Catchups, Distilling, with two most valuable Receipts, one for refining Malt Liquors, the other for curing Acid Wines, and a correct List of every Thing in Season for every Month in the Year. The tenth edition. With an Engraved Head of the Author; Also Two Plans of a Grand Table of Two Covers; and A curious new invented Fire Stove, wherein any common Fuel may be burnt instead of Charcoal. By Elizabeth Raffald.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And Also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: [1739]
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The modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion. Being the largest and best collection of new receipts for dressing all sorts of meat, fowl, and fish; and for making ragoo's, fricassees, and pastry of all sorts. In a method never before published. With instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the tables of princes, ambassadors, noblemen, and magistrates: As also the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. Adorned with copper plates, exhibiting the order of placing the different dishes, &c. on the table, in the most polite way. To which are prefixed, directions for a house steward. By Mr. Vincent La Chapelle.
La Chapelle, Vincent.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]
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A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery; for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses. By several hands. The sixth edition. To which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats, &c.
Kettilby, Mary.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]
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The art of cookery made plain and easy. To which are added, one hundred and fifty new receipts, a copious index, and a modern bill of fare, for each Month, in the Manner the Dishes are placed upon the Table. By H. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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Colloquiorum Desid. Erasmi Roterodami familiarium decerpta, cum notis illustrata. Ad usum juventutis politioris humanitatis studiis imbuendæ. Editio nitidissima.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]
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The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Potting, Collaring, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Custards, Creams. Preserves, Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials, Distilling, Brewing. With copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses. and also, bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts of Medicines, consisting of Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, &c. which, after many Years Experience, have been proved to be innocent in their Application, and most salutary in their Use. with Directions for marketing. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: 1773
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The new art of cookery, made plain and easy; Which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published; being enriched with a great variety of receipts from the best treatises on this subject. Containing, I. Of roasting and boiling flesh meat, as well as poultry. II. Of made dishes. III. Of ragous. IV. Of fricasees. V. Of Hashes. VI. Of soups and rich gravies. VII. Of soups for fast days. VIII. Of things necessary for the sick. IX. Of dressing of fish; the sauces for; and how to dress a turtle. X. Of collaring and potting. XI. Of pies of fruit, and a variety of pastes for. XII. Of pies of savoury meat. XIII. Of puddings and dumplings. XIV. Of sweetmeats and other decorations for the table. XV. Of the different plummeries and blanc mange. XVI. Of whips and syllabubs. XVII. Of preserves, jellies and jams. XVIII. Of creams, custards, torts, and cheese-cakes. XIX. Of cakes, as well plumb, seed, and saffron, &c. XX. Of macaroons, Naple's biscuits, and cheese-cakes. XXI. Of little savoury dishes, fit for supper, the sides or corners of the table. XXII. Of salting and preserving beef, pork, and making hams. XXIII. Of pickling, making catchup, vinegar, and the India pickle. XXIV. Of the different wines made of fruit. XXV. Of the use of still, and distilling of the different waters, and making meade. XXVI. Of making bread, well with yeast as leavening. XXVII. Of brewing ... drink. XXVIII. A list of the season thro' the year. XXIX. New ... of fare two course, as they are be laid on the table. XXX. Washes and salves for the skin, &c. XXXI. Some valuable physical receipts. With the addition of a variety of original receipts never before published. The representation of the frame for doing things by the steam; and the new contrivance of boiling kettles and other culinary vessels. By. H. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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The lady's, housewife's, and cookmaid's assistant: or, the art of cookery explained and adapted to the meanest capacity. Containing, I. How to roast and boil to perfection every thing necessary to be sent up to table. II. Of made-dishes. III. To make a number of pretty little dishes for a supper or side-dish, and little corner-dishes for a great table. IV. To dress fish. V. Of soups and broths. VI. Of puddings. Vii. Of pies. Viii. Of hogs puddings, sausages, &c. IX. To pot and make hams, &c. X. Of pickling. XI. Of making cakes, &c. XII. Of cheese cakes, creams, jellies, whip-syllabubs, &c. XIII. Of made-wines, brewing, French bread, mussins, &c. XIV. Jarring cherries, preserves. XV. To dress turtle, and make mock turtle. The whole designed to fit out an Entertainment In an Elegant Manner, and at a Small Expence. By E. Taylor.
Taylor, E.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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The accomplished housekeeper, and universal cook. Containing all the various branches of cookery; directions for Roasting, Boiling and Made Dishes, also for Frying, Broiling, Stewing, Mincing, and Hashing. The different Methods of Dressing Poultry, Game, and Fish, And of Preparing Soups, Gravies, Cullices, and Broths, To dress Roots and Vegetables, And to make all Sorts of Pies, Puddings, Pancakes, and Fritters; Cakes, Puffs, and Biscuits; Cheesecakes, Tarts, and Custards; Creams and Jams; Blanc Mange, Flummery, Jellies, and Syllabubs. The various Articles in Candying, Drying, Preserves, and Pickling; The Preparation of Hams, Tongues, Bacon, and of Made Wines and Cordial Waters. Directions for carving. With a Catalogue of the various Articles in Season every Month in the Year. By T. Williams, and the principal cooks at the London and Crown and Anchor taverns.
Williams, T., cook.Date: 1797
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The experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice ... Consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print. ... By Elizabeth Raffald. A new edition. In which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: 1795
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The lady's complete guide; or cookery and confectionary in all their branches. Containing the most approved receipts, ... To which is added, ... the complete brewer; ... also the family physician; ... By Mrs. Mary Cole, ...
Cole, Mary, cook.Date: 1789
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The new art of cookery, according to the present practice; being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new; consisting of thirty-eight chapters. ... By Richard Briggs, many years cook at the Globe Tavern Fleet-Street, the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, an now at the Temple Coffee-House, London.
Briggs, Richard.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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One thousand valuable secrets, in the elegant and useful arts, collected from the practice of the best artists, and containing an account of the various methods of engraving ... and a variety of other curious, entertaining and useful articles.
Date: 1795
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E. Kidder's receipts of pastry and cookery, for the use of his scholars. Who teaches at his school in St. Martins le grand: ...
Kidder, E. (Edward), 1665 or 1666-1739.Date: 1740?]
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The British housewife: or, the cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion. Calculated for the Service both of London and the Country; And directing what is necessary to be done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family throughout the Year. Containing a general account of fresh provisions of all Kinds. Of the several foreign Articles for the Table, pickled, or otherwise preserved; and the different Kinds of Spices, Salts, Sugars, and other Ingredients used in Pickling and Preserving at Home: Shewing what each is, whence it is brought, and what are its Qualities and Uses. Together with the Nature of all Kinds of Foods, and the Method of suiting them to different Constitutions; a bill of fare for each month, the Art of Marketing and chusing fresh Provisions of all Kinds; and the making as well as chusing of Hams, Tongues, and other Store Dishes. Also Directions for plain Roasting and Boiling; and for the Dressing of all Sorts of Made Dishes in various Tastes; and the preparing the Desert in all its Articles. Containing a greater Variety than was ever before publish'd, of the most Elegant, yet least Expensive receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Puddings, Preserves, Pickles, Fricassees, Ragouts, Soups, Sauces, Jellies, Tarts, Cakes, Creams, Custards, Candies, Dry'd Fruits, Sweetmeats, Made Wines, Cordials, And Distillery. To which are annexed, the art of carving; and the Terms used for cutting up various Things; and the polite and easy Manner of doing the Honotors of the Table: The whole Practice of Pickling and Preserving: And of preparing made Wines, Beer, and Cyder. As also of distilling all the useful Kinds of Cordial and Simple Waters. With the Conduct of a Family in Respect of Health; the Disorders to which they are every Month liable, and the most approved Remedies for each. And a variety of other valuable particulars, necessary to be known in All Families; and nothing inserted but what has been approved by Experience. Also the Ordering of all Kinds of profitable Beasts and Fowls, with respect to their Choice, their Breeding and Feeding; the Diseases to which they are severally liable each Month, and Receipts for their Cure. Together with the Management of the pleasant, profitable, and useful Garden. The Whole embellished with a great Number of curious copper plates, shewing the Manner of Trussing all Kinds of Game, wild and tame Fowls, &c. as also the Order of setting out Tables for Dinners, Suppers, and Grand Entertainments, in a Method never before attempted; and by which even those who cannot read will be able to instruct themselves. By Mrs. Martha Bradley, late of Bath: Being the Result of upwards of Thirty Years Experience.
Bradley, Martha.Date: [1760?]
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England's newest way in all sorts of cookery, pastry, and all pickles that are fit to be used. Adorn'd with copper plates, setting forth the manner of placing dishes upon tables; and the newest fashions of mince-pies. By Henry Howard, Free-Cook of London, and late Cook to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, and since to the Earl of Salisbury, and Earl of Winchelsea. Likewise the best receipts for making cakes, mackroons, biskets, Ginger-Bread, French-Bread: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying and Drying Fruits, Confectioning and making of Creams, Syllabubs, and Marmalades of several sorts.
Howard, Henry, active 1708.Date: 1710
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The Frugal house-keeper, or, The compleat cook. Being the newest collection of the most genteel, and least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery, viz. going to market; for roasting, boiling, hashing, stewing, broiling, frying, fricasseying, baking, also for making puddings, custards, cakes, cheese cakes, pies, tarts, ragouts, soups, creams, jellies, syllabubs, wines, &c. &c. And several select papers by a lady of distinction, lately deceased, of new and infallible rules to be observed in pickling, preserving, brewing, &c. To which is added, the art of clear starching, ironing, &c. With many other articles equally necessary in the washing of linen, lace,. &c. Also a treasure of valuable and useful receipts from the toilet of Flora. Being a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, sweet scented waters, and opiates for preserving and whitening the teeth, &c. with receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay. For the use of the ladies, &c.
Date: Printed in the year, 1778
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The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published. Containing, I. How to Roast and Boil to Perfection every Thing necessary to be sent up to Table. II. Of Made-Dishes. III. How expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. IV. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes for a Supper or Side-Dish, and little Corner-Dishes for a great Table. V. To dress Fish. VI. Of Soops and Broths. Vii. Of Puddings. Viii. Of Pies. IX. For a Lent Dinner; a Number of good Dishes, which you may make use of at any other time. X. Directions to prepare proper Food for the Sick. XI. For Captains of Ships; how to make all useful Things for a Voyage; and setting out a Table on board a Ship. XII. Of Hogs Puddings, Sausages, &c. XIII. To pot and make Hams, &c. XIV. Of Pickling. XV. Of making Cakes, &c. XVI. Of Cheese-Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Whip-Syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muffins, &c. XVIII. Jarring Cherries and Preserves, &c. XIX. To make Anchovies, Vermicella, Catchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French Beans, &c. XX. Of Distilling. XXI. How to Market; the Seasons of the Year for Butchers Meat, Poultry, Fish, Herbs, Roots, and Fruit. XXII. A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. By Dr. Mead. XXIII. A Receipt to keep clear from Buggs. To which are added, by way of appendix, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index. By a lady.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]
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The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook: containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, picking, 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 [sic]. 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 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 one day to a year. The whole is so contrived as to contain as much as any book of double the price; and the excellency of the receipts renders it the most useful book of the kind. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The sixth edition, revised and corrected. To which is now added several modern receipts, by very good judges of the separate articles, particularly to dress turtle, &c. Also, Every one their own physician ; A collection of the most approved receipts for the cure of most disorders incident to human bodies. Carefully compiled by Mary Morris.
Harrison, Sarah, active 1733-1777.Date: 1755
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The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery: the different methods of dressing Butchers Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish; and of preparing gravies, cullices, soups, and broths; to dress roots and vegetables, and to prepare Little elegant Dishes for Suppers or light Repasts: to make all sorts of pies, puddings, pancakes, and fritters; cakes, puffs, and biscuits; cheesecakes, tarts, and custards; creams and jams; blanc mange, flummery, elegant ornaments, jellies, and syllabubs. The various Articles in candying, drying, preserving, and pickling. The preparation of hams, tongues, bacon, &c. Directions for trussing poultry, carving, and marketing. The making and management of Made Wines, Cordial Waters, and Malt Liquors. Together with Directions for Baking Bread, the Management of Poultry and the Dairy, and the Kitchen and Fruit Garden; with a Catalogue of the various Articles in Season in the different Months of the Year. Besides a Variety of useful and interesting tables. The Whole Embellished with The Heads of the Authors, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, and proper Subjects for the Improvement of the Art of Carving, elegantly engraved on fourteen Copper-Plates. By Francis Collingwood, and John Woollams, Principal cooks at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. Late from the London Tavern.
Collingwood, Francis.Date: 1792
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The modern cook: containing, instructions for preparing and ordering public entertainments for the tables of princes, Ambassadors, Noblemen, and Magistrates. As also, The least Expensive Methods of providing for private Families, in a very elegant Manner. With New Receipts for Dressing of Meat, Fowl, and Fish; and making Ragouts, Fricassees, and Pastry of all Sorts, in a Method, never before published. Adorned with Copper-Plates, Exhibiting the Order of Placing the different Dishes, &c. on the Table, in the most polite Way. By Mr. Vincent La Chapelle, Late Chief Cook to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield: And now Chief Cook to his Highness the Prince of Orange.
La Chapelle, Vincent.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]