The family magazine
Subtitle: in two parts ... with a supplement containing a great variety of experienced receipts from two excellent family collections, now first communicated for the public benefit, to which is added an explanation of such terms of art used in the work as could not be so easily reduced to the understanding of common readers.
Contributors: Atkyns, Arabella.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for J. Osborn ...
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Traditional medicine -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 550
Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 150
Maclean, V.  Household and cookery books, p. 49
Preface signed: Arabella Atkyns.
Signatures: A-I⁸ ²A-U⁸ X².
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery, particularly shewing how to buy-in the best of all sorts of provisions, as poultry-ware, butchers-meat, fish, fruit, &c., with several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary, distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c., together with the art of making English wines, &c.; title: Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick, succinctly treating of all the diseases and accidents incident to men, women, and children, with practical rules and directions for the preserving and restoring of health, and prolonging of life ... being principally the common-place book of a late able physician, by which he successfully, for many years, regulated his practice.