How to Cook for Myself and Family: Comprising Directions For Roasting, Broiling, Stewing and Boiling All Kinds of Butchers' Meat, Fowls, And Fish; For Potting, Collaring, and Curing It: Also Directions For Making Confectioner, Pastry, And Bread; For Using Fruit, Candying, and Preserving It; For Pickling, Brewing, Making Wines, and Choice Beverages, and other valuable Hints for Household Management

A very scarce cookery pocket book filled with simple home recipes, credited under 'An Experienced Cook'. A very scarce copy of this Victorian cookbook, offering simple instructions for a vast range of recipes. Published anonymously under 'An Experienced Cook'.In the original pebbled cloth binding.Recipes include, among many others, almond pudding, forcemeat balls, chicken currie, Shrewsbury pie, ale, mutton broth and milk lemonade. In the original pebbled cloth binding. Externally, with fading and slight rubbing and bumping to the spine, otherwise very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only very minor offsetting to the endpapers. Near Fine.