The family's best friend, or, The whole art of cookery made plain and easy
Subtitle: together with a complete system of brewery; the management of malt liquors; the distillery of simple and compound waters, family cordials, &c. and instructions for the cultivating of the fruit, flower, and kitchen garden ; the whole being calculated for the preservation of heath, and upon the principles of frugality ; Containing the choicest receipts and directions in all the various branches of cookery, pastry, pickling, and preserving; the making of cakes, creams, jellies, soops, and all sorts of made wines; the preparing of broths, gruels, and a variety of pretty light dishes, proper for the sick, or for those who have weak stomachs: the whole exemplified in more than six hundred receipts ; ... embellished with cuts, for trussing fowls, game, &c. ; to which is now added, Mons. Millien's famous discovery for preventing either steel, brass, or any other metal from taking rust or canker; an infallible remedy to prevent persons from taking the small-pox, or any other epidemical disorder; a certain cure for the bite of a mad dog; and a variety of other choice nostrums of equal value
By: by Arabella Fairfax
Edition: The Sixth edition, greatly enlarged.
Publisher: printed for C. Henderson
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: English Cooking; Early works to 1800; Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Liquors
Notes: Includes index.

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