The family dictionary, or, houshold companion
Subtitle: containing, I. cookery in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, making sawces, etc. II. pastry, making pyes, pastries, puddings, pancakes, cheesecakes, custards, tansies, etc. III. confects, candies, conserves, preserves, creams, gellies, pickles ...
By: by William Salmon
Edition: The fourth edition / with above eleven hundred additons, intersperst through the whole work.
Publisher: Printed for H. Rhodes
Published: 1710
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
Subjects: English Cooking; Early works to 1800; Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Formularies as Topic; English Cookery
Other titles: Houshold companion; Household companion; Salmon's family dictionary, or, Houshold companion
Notes: Cagle, W.R. Matter of taste, 982

Gift; American Institute of Wine & Food.

From the American Institute of Wine & Food Collection.

From the collection of Eleanor Lowenstein, without her bookplate, per David Segal.

T.p. inscribed: James Hall ; blank page at end inscribed: Sir James Hall of Dunglass.

Contemporary polished calf, joints worn.
Table of contents: title: (From t.p.) I. Cookery in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs ...; title: II. Pastry, making pyes, pasties, puddings, pancakes ...; title: III. Confects, candies, conserves, preserves ...; title: IV. Potable liquors, as ale, beer, mum, mead ...; title: V. Perfuming sweet balls, pouders, pomanders, essences ...; title: VI. Husbandry, as it relates to the improvement of our barren and waste lands, manufactures ...; title: VII. Preparations galenick and chymick' relating to physick and chirurgery, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs ...