The house-keeper's pocket book and compleat family cook
Subtitle: containing several hundred curious receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, brewing, baking, made wines, &c., with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. : to which is added, Every man his own doctor, shewing the nature and faculties of the different sorts of foods, whereby every man and woman may know what is good or hurtful to them.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the booksellers in town and country
Published: 1776
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Meat -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Hephzibah Rugeley.
Maclean, V.  Household and cookery books, p. 72
Place and date of printing suggested by MacLean.
The frontispiece has the legend "engraved for Mrs. Harrison's new cookery book, 1783," and the t.p. of this  work copies the phrasing of Sarah Harrison's, but the recipes on p. 1-156 are excerpted from Hannah Glasse's The art of cookery made plain and easy.
Signatures: A-O⁶.