A New System of Domestic Cookery Founded Upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted To The Use of Private Families

A Lady

Published by John Albermarle, London, 1841

About this Item

Published by John Murray in !841. A Sixty-Fifth Edition. Size: 10.5 x 17 cms or 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Page number: 571. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front and spine. There are several black and white engraved illustrations within including a fine frontispiece and others showing cuts of meat and the creatures from which they come. Chapters cover Soup, Fish, Roasting and Boiling, Veal and Pork, Beef, Mutton, Rissoles Croquettes, Sausages, Poultry and Game, Pies, Puddings, French Cookery, Vegetables, Eggs, Cheese and Salad, Oriental Cookery, Sauces and Forcemeat, Salting and Pickling, Pickles and Family sauces, Preserves, Sweet dishes, Observations on making and baking cakes, Punch, Liqueurs and Wine, Dairy and Poultry, Cookery for the sick and for the poor, Various receipts and directions to servants, Bills of fare, Family dinners etc and Miscellaneous. Condition: Very Good. The cover is well used being rubbed at the edges, generally worn and somewhat marked. A repair has been made at some point to the front hinge. The pages within are browned and foxed. A few pages have been turned at the corner. A previous owner's name is written in ink on the first endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A New System of Domestic Cookery Founded Upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted To The Use of Private Families
• Publisher: John Albermarle, London
• Publication Date: 1841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket