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The London and country cook : or, Accomplished housewife, containing practical directions and the best receipts in all the branches of cookery and housekeeping ; such as boiling, roasting, pastry, pickling, jellies, preserving, confectionary, cakes, creams, cordials, syrups, English wines, &c. Interspersed with many sovereign and approved medicines used by private families in most distempers

Title
The London and country cook : or, Accomplished housewife, containing practical directions and the best receipts in all the branches of cookery and housekeeping ; such as boiling, roasting, pastry, pickling, jellies, preserving, confectionary, cakes, creams, cordials, syrups, English wines, &c. Interspersed with many sovereign and approved medicines used by private families in most distempers / by Charles Carter.
Author
Carter, Charles.
Publication
London : Printed for Charles Hitch in Pater-noster Row, Stephen Austen in Newgate-Street, and John Hinton in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1749.

Details

Additional Authors
Gentlewoman.
Description
vii, [1]-363, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates (part fold.) : ill., front.; 20 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Accomplished housewife
  • Compleat city and country cook.
Subject
  • Cooking > Early works to 1800
  • Cooking, English
  • Medicine, Popular
Note
  • Earlier ed. has title: Compleat city and country cook.
  • Includes index.
Call Number
VTI (Carter, C. London and country cook)
OCLC
2082621
Author
Carter, Charles.
Title
The London and country cook : or, Accomplished housewife, containing practical directions and the best receipts in all the branches of cookery and housekeeping ; such as boiling, roasting, pastry, pickling, jellies, preserving, confectionary, cakes, creams, cordials, syrups, English wines, &c. Interspersed with many sovereign and approved medicines used by private families in most distempers / by Charles Carter.
Imprint
London : Printed for Charles Hitch in Pater-noster Row, Stephen Austen in Newgate-Street, and John Hinton in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1749.
Edition
3d ed. / rev. and much improved by a gentlewoman, many years housekeeper to an eminent merchant in the City of London.
Added Author
Gentlewoman.
Added Title
Compleat city and country cook.
Research Call Number
VTI (Carter, C. London and country cook)
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