A Complete System of Cookery, On a Plan Entirely New: Consisting of Every Thing Requisite for Cooks to Know in the Kitchen Business; Containing Bills of Fare for Every Day of the Year, and Directions How to Dress Each Dish; Being One Year's Work, at the Marquis of Buckingham's from the 1st January to the 31st of December, 1805
Published by Second Editon, Corrected and Enlarged, Printed for W. Stewart, [1807]. OXFORD. English Cookery Books to thge Year 1850. pp134-135. Very good clean copy., 1807
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Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United KingdomR.G. Watkins Books and Prints
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Bills of fare, index; xvi+696pp; lacks half-title. 8vo contemp. half speckled calf, spine gilt, with green leatehr spine label, marbled boards, wear on extremities, According to Arnold Oxford, this book is on an entirely new plan. The daily bill of fare are for two course meals, with several dishes for each course. There are recipes given for the dishes. This is presumably the fare offered to the Duke of Buckingham and his guests at his country house Stowe, as such gives an indication of the foods which were available at the different times of year. The book is dedicated to Mrs Thomas, Hotel, Berkeley Square.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Complete System of Cookery, On a Plan Entirely New: Consisting of Every Thing Requisite for Cooks to Know in the Kitchen Business; Containing Bills of Fare for Every Day of the Year, and Directions How to Dress Each Dish; Being One Year's Work, at the Marquis of Buckingham's from the 1st January to the 31st of December, 1805
- Author
- SIMPSON, JOHN:
- Publisher
- Second Editon, Corrected and Enlarged, Printed for W. Stewart, [1807]. OXFORD. English Cookery Books to thge Year 1850. pp134-135. Very good clean copy.
- Publication year
- 1807
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket issued
- Binding
- Hardcover
R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since February 18, 1999
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