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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c., &c : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts ...

Title
The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c., &c : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts ... / by Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart.
Author
Smith, Mary, of Newcastle.
Publication
Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson, and G.G.J. and J. Robinson ... London, 1786.

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Description
viii, [9]-406 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm. (8vo)
Subjects
Note
  • Original edition published: Newcastle : Printed by T. Slack, for the author, 1772.
  • Signatures: a⁴ B-3D⁴ 3E⁴ (-E4).
  • The ill. are engraved diagrams of table settings.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC (RLIN)
  • Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib.
  • Maclean, V. Household and cookery books
Contents
(from title page) I. Rules for marketing -- II. Boiling, roasting, andbroiling flesh, fish, and fowls ... -- III. Making made dishes of all sorts, puddings, pies, cakes, fritters, &c. -- IV. Pickling, preserving, and making wines ... -- V. Potting and collaring ... -- VI. Bills of fare for every month in the year ... illustrated with two elegant copper-plates of a first and second course for a genteel table.
Call Number
*KU 01-247
LCCN
44049576
OCLC
  • 3687247
  • NYPGR3687247-B
Author
Smith, Mary, of Newcastle.
Title
The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c., &c : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts ... / by Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart.
Imprint
Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson, and G.G.J. and J. Robinson ... London, 1786.
Edition
A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements.
Indexed In:
ESTC (RLIN) N28279
Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 439-440
Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 136
Local Note
Provenance: Margaret Jane McCrea (autograph on blank leaf bound in preceding t.p.).
Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
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Local Subject
McCrae, Margaret Jane Provenance.
Added Author
McCrae, Margaret Jane. Former owner
Research Call Number
*KU 01-247
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