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The house-keeper's pocket book, and compleat family cook : containing several hundred curious receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, brewing, baking, made wines, &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. : to which is added, Every man his own doctor, shewing the nature and faculties of the different sorts of foods, whereby every man and woman may know what is good or hurtful to them.

Title
The house-keeper's pocket book, and compleat family cook : containing several hundred curious receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, brewing, baking, made wines, &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. : to which is added, Every man his own doctor, shewing the nature and faculties of the different sorts of foods, whereby every man and woman may know what is good or hurtful to them.
Author
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.
Publication
[London] : Printed for the booksellers in town and country, [ca. 1790]

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Description
168 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 16 cm. (12mo)
Alternative Title
Every man his own doctor
Subjects
Note
  • Pages [3]-156 excerpted from The art of cookery made plain and easy, by H. Glasse.
  • Frontispiece has legend: Engraved for Mrs. Harrison's new cookery book, 1783. "Mrs. Harrison's book titled The house-keeper's pocket book, and compleat family cook was originally published, London, 1733, and is similar to this work only in title"--Cagle, W.R. A matter of taste, 758 (entry for ca. 1785 ed.).
  • Originally published London, 1776. Cf. Maclean; Cagle.
  • Signatures: A-O⁶ (A2-3 signed "A", "A2").
Indexed In (note)
  • Maclean, V. Household and cookery books
Call Number
*KU 99-259
LCCN
75313834 //r863
OCLC
  • 1505351
  • NYPGR1505351-B
Author
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.
Title
The house-keeper's pocket book, and compleat family cook : containing several hundred curious receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, brewing, baking, made wines, &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. : to which is added, Every man his own doctor, shewing the nature and faculties of the different sorts of foods, whereby every man and woman may know what is good or hurtful to them.
Imprint
[London] : Printed for the booksellers in town and country, [ca. 1790]
Indexed In:
Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 72
Local Note
Helen Hay Whitney collection.
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Added Title
Every man his own doctor
Research Call Number
*KU 99-259
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