The art of cookery made plain and easy
Subtitle: which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published, containing ... to which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery, with a copious index
By: Mrs. Glasse.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: A new edition, with all the modern improvements, and also the order of a bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the table, in the present taste.
Publisher: Printed for W. Strahan [and 25 others]
Published: 1784
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 155
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2E⁸ 2F².
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. How to roast and boil to perfection everything necessary to be sent up to table; title: II. Of made dishes; title: III. 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; title: V. To dress fish; title: VI. Of soups and broths; title: VII. Of puddings; title: VIII. Of pies; title: IX. For a Lent dinner, a number of good dishes, which may be made use of at any other time; title: X. Directions to prepare proper food for the sick; title: XI. For captains of ships, how to make all useful dishes for a voyage, and setting out a table on board; title: XII. Of hog's 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, whipt syllabubs, &c.; title: XVII. Of made wines, brewing, French bread, muffins, &c.; title: XVIII. Jarring cherries and preserves, &c.; title: XIX. To make anchovies, vermicelli, catchup, vinegar, and to keep artichokes, French beans, &c.; title: XX. Of distilling; title: XXI. How to market, the season of the year for butchers meat, poultry, fish, herbs, roots, 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 bugs.