The Ladies' Assistant for regulating and supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery &c. Containing the most select Bills of Fare, properly disposed, for Family Dinners of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen … Likewise Directions for Brewing, making English Wines … Sixth Edition, enlarged, corrected and improved to the Present Time.

MASON, Charlotte

Published by London, J. Walter, 1787

About this Item

8vo, later faux snakeskin binding with manuscript title on spine, [xvi] + 484 p. + [14 (index)]; good copy, 2 additional handwritten recipes inserted, few stains, repairs on pages 293-294 without loss of text, last five pages of index missing starting from letter S. Sixth edition of this pioneering gastronomical work first published in 1773 and first edition with this title. Charlotte Mason's 1787 cookbook is a comprehensive source of late eighteenth-century English recipes, bills of fare and cookery instructions. It contains some of the earliest recipes for sandwiches and more unique dishes such as 'viper broth'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ladies' Assistant for regulating and supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery &c. Containing the most select Bills of Fare, properly disposed, for Family Dinners of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen … Likewise Directions for Brewing, making English Wines … Sixth Edition, enlarged, corrected and improved to the Present Time.
• Publisher: London, J. Walter
• Publication Date: 1787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good