The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife : Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting candying, collaring pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. together with directions for placing dishes on tables for entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and for more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The fourth edition. To which is added, a supplement, containing forty-nine receipts, never before printed.

Author/creator Peckham, Ann
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeeds : Printed for Thomas Wright; and for T. Wilson and R. Spence, High Ousegate, York, [1790?]
Description242, 10 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰.
Supplemental ContentFull text online
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General noteWith an index.
General notePrice on title page: (Price Two Shillings and Sixpence Bound.)
General noteReproduction of original from British Library.
References English Short Title Catalog, T201453.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formCookbooks.

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