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The Frugal House Wife [Housewife]: or, Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole.
Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury, [ca. 1765-8]. Evident first edition, this Dublin imprint was functionally published simultaneous with the London imprint (see Maclean, pages 23-24). Bound in contemporary full speckled calf; five raised bands, later gilt-tooled red morocco spine label. Spine rebacked with original laid-down and..... More