The queens closet opened
Subtitle: incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c. which were presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem, when she pleased to descend to private recreations
Contributors: Murphy, Claudia Quigley, former owner; Smyth, Millicent W., former owner; American Institute of Wine & Food
Edition: Corrected and reviewed, with many additions: together with three exact tables.
Publisher: printed for Christ. Eccleston, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans Church-Yard
Published: 1662
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Recipes; Early works to 1800; Cooking; Canning and preserving
Other titles: Queen's cabinet opened: or, the pearle of practice. Accurate, physical and chyrurgical receipts.; Pearle of practice: accurate, physical and chyrurgical receipts.; Queens delight.; Art of preserving, conserving, and candying.; Compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry.
Notes: "To the reader" is signed: W.M.

Caption title on p. 1 reads: The queen's cabinet opened: or, The pearle of practice. Accurate, physical and chyrurgical receipts.".

With separate dated title page: A queens delight: or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying. As also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters. Never before published. Printed by R. Wood, for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662. Pagination and register continuous.

With separate title page: The Compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry. Printed for for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662.

With four indexes.

[12] p. booklist of items printed for Nath. Brooke.

Wing (2nd ed.), M100.