The art of cookery, made plain and easy
Subtitle: which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published, containing ...
By: by a Lady.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fourth edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold at the Bluecoat-Boy ... at Mrs. Ashburn's china-shop ... at the Leg and Dial ... at the Prince of Wales's Arms ... at Mr. Trye's ... and by the booksellers in town and country
Published: 1751
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 154
The frontispiece is an advertisement by "Hannah Glasse, habit-maker."
Signatures: pi1 a-b⁴ c⁴(-c1) B-2T⁴ 2U².
LC copy includes a letter to the editor of a newspaper by Wm. Geo. Colley discussing the rarity of the 1745 (i.e. 1747) ed. of this title.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Of roasting, boiling, &c.; title: II. Of made-dishes; title: III. Read this chapter and you will find out how expensive a French cook's sauce is; title: IV. To make a number of pretty little dishes for a supper or side-dish, and little corner-dishes for a great table, and the rest you have in the chapter on Lent; title: V. To dress fish; title: VI. Of soops and broths; title: VII. Of puddings; title: VIII. Of pies; title: IX. For a Lent dinner, a number of good dishes, which you may make use of for a table at any other time; title: X. Directions for the sick; title: XI. For captains of ships; title: XII. Of hogs puddings, sausages, &c.; title: XIII. To pot and make hams, &c.; title: XIV. Of pickling; title: XV. Of making cakes, &c.; title: XVI. Of cheesecakes, creams, jellies, whip syllabubs, &c.; title: XVII. Of made wines, brewing, French bread, muffins, &c.; title: XVIII. Jarring cherries and preserves, &c.; title: XIX. To make anchovies, vermicella, catchup, vinegar, and to keep artichokes, French beans, &c.; title: XX. Of distilling; title: XXI. How to market, the seasons of the year for butchers meat, poultry, fish, herbs, roots, &c., and fruit; title: XXII. A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog by Dr. Mead; title: XXIII. A receipt to keep clear from buggs; title: To which are added, by way of appendix, I. To dress a turtle the West-India way; title: II. To make ice cream; title: III. A turkey, &c., in jelly; title: IV. to make citron; title: V. To candy cherries of green gages; title: VI. To take ironmolds out of linnen.