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Title

The family-dictionary, or, Household companion : containing in an alphabetical method ... / by William Salmon, professor of physick.

Author

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

Publication

London : Printed for H. Rhodes ..., 1705.

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Details

Description

[8], 380, [36] p.; 20 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

• Family-dictionary
• Household companion
• Family dictionary, or, Household companion

Subjects

• Food > Preservation > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Popular > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800
• Perfumes > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800
• Distillation > Early works to 1800

Note

• Original edition published London, 1695. Cf. Cagle, W.R. Matter of taste, 981
• Signatures: A⁴ B-2B⁸ 2C-2F⁴.
• Publisher's advertisements: p. [412-416].
• Errata: p. 380.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC (RLIN)
• Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib.
• Maclean, V. Household and cookery books

Contents

(from t.p.) I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &c., seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. -- II. Making all sorts of pastry, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak'd, boyled, or fried, &c. -- III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, jellies, creams, pickles, &c. -- IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, as ales, meads, metheglin, English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c., cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh -- V. The making of all sorts of perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beautifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums -- VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick -- VII. The preparations of several choice medicines, physical, and chirurgical, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs, syrups, pouders, electuaries, pills, oils, ointments; cerecloths and emplasters : fitted for a family use, in curing most diseases incident to men, women, and children.

Call Number

*KU 01-244

LCCN

44013934

OCLC

• 5723960
• NYPGR5723960-B

Author

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

Title

The family-dictionary, or, Household companion : containing in an alphabetical method ... / by William Salmon, professor of physick.

Imprint

London : Printed for H. Rhodes ..., 1705.

Edition

The third edition, enlarged, with several hundreds of excellent receipts.

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T71373

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 416

Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 127-128

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Research Call Number

*KU 01-244