Research Catalog

Title

The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery In All Its Various Branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; With The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Persection British Wines; And Proper Rules For Brewing Malt Liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To Which IS Added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated With Engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With Copper-Plates, displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so New a Plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.

Author

Henderson, William Augustus.

Publication

London : printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, Holborn-Hill, [1790?]

Details

Description

456,[24]p.,plates; 8⁰.

Subjects

• Recipes > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English > Early works to 1800

Note

• The final 12 leaves contain an index and a list of subscribers.
• Published in 12 parts.
• In this issue "bills of fare for every month in the year" in title is in capitals and the imprint address in imprint is "Holborn-Hill"
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642351952
• ECCO1-T127430

Author

Henderson, William Augustus.

Title

The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery In All Its Various Branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; With The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Persection British Wines; And Proper Rules For Brewing Malt Liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To Which IS Added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated With Engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With Copper-Plates, displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so New a Plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.

Imprint

London : printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, Holborn-Hill, [1790?]

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T127430.

Connect to:

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.