The housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion
Subtitle: being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ...
By: by Robert Abbot, late apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter,  confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author and sold by C. Cooke ... and all other booksellers in town and country; C. Cooke
Published: 1790
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Confectionery -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Housekeeper's valuable present; Lady's closet companion
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Anne Jones, Dec. 18, 1791.
Maclean, V.  Household and cookery books, p. [1]
Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 165
Probable dates of printing suggested by Pennell based partially on the inscription.
Signatures: A-H⁶ I².
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Different methods and degrees of boiling and clarifying sugar; title: II. Methods of preserving various fruits in syrups, &c.; title: III. Methods of making marmalades, jams, pastes, &c.; title: IV. Methods of making syrups, custards, jellies, blanch-mange, conserves, syllabubs, &c.; title: V. Methods of preserving various fruits in brandy; title: VI. Methods of making a variety of biscuits, rich cakes, &c. &c.; title: VII. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working ice creams; title: VIII. Methods of preparing cordials and made wines; title: With a variety of other useful and elegant articles.