The Lady's companion, or, An infallible guide to the fair sex
Subtitle: containing rules, directions, and observations for their conduct and behaviour through all ages and circumstances of life as virgins, wives, or widows, with directions and observations for their conduct and behaviour through all ages and circumstances of life, as virgins, wives, or widows ... : to which is added bills of fare for every month of the year ... also rules and receipts of making all the choicest cordials of the closet ...
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for T. Read ...
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 694
Subjects: Cookery -- Early works to 1800; Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Lady's companion; Infallible guide to the fair sex; Whole duty of a woman; Whole duty of a woman.
Notes: Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 149
Published in 1737 under title: The Whole duty of a woman.
Signatures: A⁴ chi1 B-4R⁴ 4S(-S4).
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) 1. Making all sorts of soops and sauces; title: 2. Dressing flesh, fish, and fowl, this last illustrated with cuts ...; title: 3. Making above 50 different sorts of puddings ...; title: 4. The whole art of pastry in making pies, tarts, and pasties; title: 5. Receipts for all manner of pickling, collaring, &c.; title: 6. For preserving making creams, jellies, and all manner of confectionary; title: 7. Rules and directions for setting out dinners, suppers, and grand entertainments.