The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife
Subtitle: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing [of] the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year : likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor ...
By: by Charles Carter ...
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen ...
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Traditional medicine -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Compleat city and country cook; Accomplish'd housewife
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 78
Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 148-149
"To which is added by way of appendix, near two hundred of the most approv'd receipts in physick and surgery for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families, the collection of a noble lady deceased, a work design'd for the good, and absolutely necessary for all families."
Signatures: A⁴ B-S⁸ T⁴.
LC copy imperfect: p. vii-viii, plates 41, 42, and 49 wanting, plate 46 torn with the right half wanting.