The cook's oracle :
containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families : also the art of composing the most simple and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavourig essences, the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure, the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician.
Description
- Related Names
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Moyes, James, -1838, printer.
Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham, former owner.
Green, Mary, 1870-1925, former owner.
Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Archibald Constable & Co.
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : Printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street
London : Printed for A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson, & Co., Cheapside, and also sold by all booksellers in town and country, 1822.
- Edition
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The fourth edition, to which are added one hundred and thirty new receipts for pastry, preserves, puddings, and an easy, certain, and economical process for preparing pickles, by which they will be ready in a fortnight and remain good for years /
- Note
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Signatures: a⁸ b1 B-Z¹² 2A⁶ 2B⁴(-2B4)
Includes title page for another work, The art of invigorating and prolonging life, on page [iv], perhaps as publisher's advertisement.
Printer's statement from title page verso.
"Miscuit utile dulci"--Title page.
Published in 1817 under title: Apicius redivivus, or, The cook's oracle.
- Physical Description
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xviii, 545, [1] pages ;
18 cm
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