The new London family cook, or, Town and country housekeeper's guide
Subtitle: comprehending directions for marketing, with illustrative plates, on a principle entirely new : general observations, and bills of fare for every week in the year : practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, and for dressing fish, venison, butcher's meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties : with the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. : cookery for the sick, and for the poor : directions for carving and a glossary of the most generally received French and English terms in the culinary art : also a selection of valuable family recipes, in dyeing, perfumery, &c. : instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening : and an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. ; concluding with an alphabetical list of the most respectable manufacturers and dealers in the various articles connected with domestic economy : forming in the whole a most complete family instructor
By: by Duncan Macdonald, head cook at the Bedford Tavern and Hotel, Covent-Garden and assistants
Publisher: Albion Press : Printed for James Cundee
Published: 1808
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
Subjects: English Cooking; Menus; Formulas, recipes; Home economics
Other titles: Town and country housekeeper's guide; New London family cook
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴ B-4K⁴ 4L1.

Preface dated Jan. 1, 1808.

Printer statement from page 634.

Publisher's advertisments: [6] pages at end.

Vicaire, G.  Bib gastronomique, col. 545

Gift of Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky.

Binding: marbled boards; half calf; spine gilt; Anne Willan's bookplate on front pastedown.