Cite this Page

Peckham, Ann. The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1667, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/1667. Accessed 2024-03-28.

@book{ wphp_1667
  author={Peckham,Ann},
  year={1790},
  title={The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed.},
  publisher={Robert Spence \& Thomas Wilson [London House Yard] \& Thomas Wright},
  address={Leeds},    }

Suggestions and Comments for The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed.
Follow Up