The compleat city and country cook, or, accomplish'd housewife. Containing, several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c. Illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates, directing the regular placing the various dishes on the table, from one to four or five courses: Also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year. Likewise, the horse-shoe table for the ladies at the late instalment at Windsor; ... / By Charles Carter. ... To which are added, near two hundred of the most approved receipts in physick and surgery, for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families; with several sovereign receipts for the cure of the bite of a mad dog.

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view The compleat city and country cook, or, accomplish'd housewife. Containing, several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c. Illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates, directing the regular placing the various dishes on the table, from one to four or five courses: Also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year. Likewise, the horse-shoe table for the ladies at the late instalment at Windsor; ... / By Charles Carter. ... To which are added, near two hundred of the most approved receipts in physick and surgery, for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families; with several sovereign receipts for the cure of the bite of a mad dog.

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The compleat city and country cook, or, accomplish'd housewife. Containing, several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c. Illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates, directing the regular placing the various dishes on the table, from one to four or five courses: Also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year. Likewise, the horse-shoe table for the ladies at the late instalment at Windsor; ... / By Charles Carter. ... To which are added, near two hundred of the most approved receipts in physick and surgery, for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families; with several sovereign receipts for the cure of the bite of a mad dog. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis, in Pater-noster-Row: and S. Austen in St Paul's Church-yard, 1736.

Physical description

viii, 329 pages, 15 unnumbered pages, 49 leaves of plates ; 8vo.

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Edition

The second edition, with large additions.

References note

ESTC T91033

Notes

With two final leaves of advertisements.
Copy 1. Manuscript annotations of 'good' next to recipes throughout.

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