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1. The family's best friend, or The whole art of cookery made plain and easy: together with a complete system of brewery ; the management of malt liquors ; the distillery of simple and compound waters, family cordials, &c ; and instructions for the cultivating of the fruit, flower, and kitchen garden ; the whole being calculated for the preservation of heath, and upon the principles of frugality ... ; the result of forty years practice and experience, together with great assistance in every branch ; embellished with cuts, for trussing fowls, game, &c ; to which is now added, Mons. Millien's famous discovery for preventing either steel, brass, or any other metal from taking rust or canker ; an infallible remedy to prevent persons from taking the small-pox, or any other epidemical disorder ; a certain cure for the bite of a mad dog ; and a variety of other choice nostrums of equal value

Author(s):
Fairfax, Arabella.
Publication:
London : Printed for C. Henderson, [ca. 1755]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional

8. The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams, preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of three hundred receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years of experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use : with directions for marketing

Author(s):
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, C. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, and C. and R. Ward, 1773
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine

9. The new book of cookery, or, Every woman a perfect cook: containing the greatest variety of approved receipts in all the branches of cookery and confectionary, viz. : boiling, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing, hashing, baking, fricassees, ragouts, made-dishes, soups, sauces, puddings, pies, tarts, cakes, custards, preserving, candying, drying, potting, collarding, English-wines, &c. ... : to which are added, the best instructions for marketing, and sundry modern bills of fare : also directions for clear-starching and improving beauty : likewise a collection of phisical [sic] receipts for families, &c. : the whole calculated to assist the prudent housewife and her servants, in furnishing the cheapest and most elegant set of dishes in the various departments of cookery, and to instruct ladies in many other particulars of great importance too numerous to mention in this title page

Author(s):
Price, Elizabeth, Mrs
Publication:
London : Printed for the authoress, and sold by Alex. Hogg ... and may be had of all other booksellers, [178-?]
Subject(s):
Cooking

10. An enumeration of the principal vegetables, and vegetable productions, that may be substituted, either in part or wholly, in place of wheat and other bread-corn, in times of scarcity: with short notices respecting the best modes of preparing them for use

Author(s):
Author of Some information on the use of Indian corn, author
Publication:
Birmingham : Printed and sold by Thomas Pearson; sold also by R. Baldwin, and L.B. Seeley, Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Vegetables
Cooking
Triticum
United Kingdom

13. The director; or, Young woman's best companion: being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published : the whole makes a complete family cook and physican : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery : to which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables : directions for carving, and to make wines : likewise bills of fare for every month in the year : with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families

Author(s):
Jackson, Sarah, active 1754, author
Publication:
London : Printed for S. Crowder; and R. Baldwin, 1770
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

15. Domestic economy, or, A complete system of English housekeeping: containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by observation and practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant : besides a great variety of others which have never before been offered to the public : also a valuable collection, translated from the productions of cooks of eminence who have published in France, with their respective names to each receipt : which, together with the original articles, for the most complete system of housekeeping ever yet exhibited, under the following heads, viz. : roasting, boiling, made-dishes, frying, broiling, potting, fricassees, ragouts, soups, sauces, gravies, hashes, stews, puddings, custards, cakes, tarts, pies, pasties, cheesecakes, jellies, pickling, preserving, and confectionary : to which is prefixed, in order to render it as complete and perfect as possible, an elegant collection of light dishes for supper, adapted for every month in the year : also The complete brewer ... likewise The family physician : being a collection of the most valuable and approved prescriptions by Mead, Sydenham, Tissot, Fothergill, Elliot, Buchan, and others

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Creswick, and Co., 1794
Subject(s):
Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

17. The complete English cook, or, Prudent housewife: being an entire new collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery : with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made-wines, &c. : together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment : and many other things equally necessary : the whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant

Author(s):
Peckham, Ann.
Publication:
Leeds : Printed by Griffith Wright, M,DCC,LXVII, and sold by the author, and J. Ogle, in Leeds, and Messrs. Robinson and Roberts ... London, [1767]
Subject(s):
Cooking

19. The art of cookery: containing above six hundred and fifty of the most approv'd receipts heretofore published, under the following heads, viz. : roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, baking, fricasees, puddings, custards, cakes, cheese-cakes, tarts, pyes, soops, made-wines, jellies, candying, pickling, preserving, pastry, collering, confectionary, creams, ragoos, brasing, &c. &c., also a bill of fare for every month in the year : with an alphabetical index to the whole : being a book highly necessary for all families, having the grounds of cookery fully display'd therein

Author(s):
Thacker, John, cook
Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by I. Thompson and Company, 1758
Subject(s):
Cooking

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