The cook's oracle; and housekeeper's manual.
Containing receipts for cookery, and directions for carving. Also, the art of composing the most simple and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavouring essences; pastry, preserves, puddings, pickles, &c., with a complete system of cookery for Catholic families. The quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure; being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of William Kitchiner, M.D.
Adapted to the American public by a medical gentleman.

Description

Main Author

Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.

Language(s)

English

Published

[New York] Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1831.

Edition

From the last London edition. [Harper's stereotype ed.].

Subjects

Cooking, English.

Note

Issued in 1817 under title: Apicius redivivus; or, The cook's oracle.

Physical Description

xii p., 1 l., [15]-432 p. illus. 18 cm.

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