The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: And Those the best and most fashionable; Being Four Times the Quantity of any Book of this Sort. I. Making near two Hundred different Sorts of Soops, Pottages, Broths, Sauces, Cullises, &c. after the French, Italian, Dutch, and English Way; also making Cake Soop for the Pocket. II. Dressing Flesh, Fish, and Fowl; this last illustrated with Cuts, shewing how every Fowl is to be truss'd. III. Directions for making Ragoos and Fricaseys. IV. Directions for Dressing all Manner of Kitchen Garden Stuff, &c. V. Making two Hundred different Sorts of Puddings, Florendines, Tanzeys, &c. which are four Times the Number to be met with in any other Boo

Published by London, Printed for J. Hodges; and R. Baldwin, at the Rose, in Pater-Noster Row,, 1753

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12mo. Two volumes. [2], 413, [17] p ; [4], 414, [16] p. Engraved frontispiece and woodcuts in the text of Vol I. Four double page plates bound in at the end of Vol. II. Sixth edition. 18cm. Modern blind panelled calf. Spines with raised bands lettered direct. Calligraphic inscription to the blank preceding the title page of Vol. II 'Eliz. Booker Book AD 1757' with a cherub's head. Internally clean and tight. A very good set. This anonymous work first appeared as The whole duty of a woman in a single 4to volume in 1737.

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Title
The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: And Those the best and most fashionable; Being Four Times the Quantity of any Book of this Sort. I. Making near two Hundred different Sorts of Soops, Pottages, Broths, Sauces, Cullises, &c. after the French, Italian, Dutch, and English Way; also making Cake Soop for the Pocket. II. Dressing Flesh, Fish, and Fowl; this last illustrated with Cuts, shewing how every Fowl is to be truss'd. III. Directions for making Ragoos and Fricaseys. IV. Directions for Dressing all Manner of Kitchen Garden Stuff, &c. V. Making two Hundred different Sorts of Puddings, Florendines, Tanzeys, &c. which are four Times the Number to be met with in any other Boo
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LADY'S COMPANION
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London, Printed for J. Hodges; and R. Baldwin, at the Rose, in Pater-Noster Row,
Publication year
1753

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