The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &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. And directions for placing them in their proper order. with directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cider, shrub, &c. and distilling strong waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions of the most Eminent Physicians, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body. The third edition, corrected and improv'd, with the addition of four hundred gen

HARRISON, Sarah.

Published by Printed for R. Ware. 1743, 1743

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[8], 268, [12]pp index, 20 woodcut illustrations of place settings within the pagination. Tears to bottom of gutter margins H6/7, sl. damage from adhesion now released but sl. affecting several letters, contemporary pen strokes to foot of page 232, M3 torn without loss & a little loose in binding, M9/10 & final leaf torn without loss with some soiling. Full contemporary sheep, joints cracked & worn but holding, foot of spine worn, corners bumped. With contemporary ownership names of Miss Mary Darch of Luccombe, Robt. Darch 1748, sl. later name of James Darch, 1796, & again of Mary Bennet (ne� Darch), Luckham, 1830. Inner boards & leading e.p. are covered in these contemporary names & various pen strokes. The Darch family were from the Luccombe area in Somerset; Mary Darch married George Bennet in 1806. ESTC T127677, BL, Cambridge, New York Academy of Medicine, Beinecke, McGill only. First published in 1733 with 300 recipes, and enlarged to 700 recipes in the second edition of 1739. It is addressed to the House-Wives in Great Britain, and reassures them that the regulation of a household is of 'much more intrinsick value than some admired branches of literature', whatever men may otherwise think. The recipes, acquired from 'all my female friends and acquaintances', are mainly plain English fare, avoiding all unnecessary extravagances and expense, and combine 'elegance in eating' with 'frugality and good conduct.' It provides a good example of the female politic of the kitchen, attempting to convince men that 'it is not everyone's fortune to have a large and plentiful estate'; a marked contrast to some of the male authors who worked for the aristocracy and emphasised the refinements of expensive French cuisine.

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The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &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. And directions for placing them in their proper order. with directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cider, shrub, &c. and distilling strong waters, &c. after ...

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