The Female Economist; or, a plain system of cookery, for the use of families; containing upwards of eight hundred & fifty valuable receipts. Also, the housekeeper's assistant in the choice of provisions, containing a list of the articles in season during
by Smith, Mrs
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
18, Strand, London: Samuel Leigh, 1828. Twelfth edition, enlarged. Small octavo, frontispiece, pp lviii, 300. + two page bookseller's catalogue, a few small line drawings in the text, edges untrimmed, signs of use throughout, some foxing and staining, recently bound in a simple red cloth, lightly decorated. [With many manuscript additions, some merely altering a printed menu, many written on blank leaves, and others on scraps of paper, tipped-in. Notable are Jams, Cabinet Pudding, Suet Pudding, Soda Cake, Raspberry and Mulberry Vinegar, tomato sauce, cooking scarlet and French beans, boiling vegetables, Mulberry Syrup, Mince Pies, Eloise (?) Pudding, Gooseberry Wine, Peas Pudding, Russian Ox Tongues, Noyeau, Mayonnaise Sauce. Other domestic hints are given - directions for using a frying pan, tooth powder, blacking, cleaning floor cloths, invisible ink, toothache cure. One recipe for plum cakes is signed Mary Buckley, and written on the reverse of a scrap of paper addressed to Sir George Lewis, Home Secretary, Harpton Court, Herefordshire; possibly Mary Buckley was his cook ?]. A delightful copy - used but sound.. Cloth. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017070
- Title
- The Female Economist; or, a plain system of cookery, for the use of families; containing upwards of eight hundred & fifty valuable receipts. Also, the housekeeper's assistant in the choice of provisions, containing a list of the articles in season during
- Author
- Smith, Mrs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Samuel Leigh
- Place of Publication
- 18, Strand, London
- Date Published
- 1828
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookery; Social History; Early works;
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