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Harrison, Sarah. The house-keeper's pocket-book; and compleat family cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. And directions for ranging them in their proper order. To which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year, that no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. With directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 22903, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/22903. Accessed 2024-12-26.

@book{ wphp_22903
  author={Harrison,Sarah},
  year={1739},
  title={The house-keeper's pocket-book; and compleat family cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. And directions for ranging them in their proper order. To which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year, that no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. With directions for making all sorts of wines, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire.},
  publisher={Richard Ware},
  address={London},    }

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