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 on 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 ... need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. with directions for making all sorts of wings, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. ... with many excellent prescriptions, of singular [remedy] in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improv'd, with the Addition of Four Hundred Recipes, sent to the Author by several worthy Persons.
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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 on 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 ... need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. with directions for making all sorts of wings, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. ... with many excellent prescriptions, of singular [remedy] in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improv'd, with the Addition of Four Hundred Recipes, sent to the Author by several worthy Persons.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 23157, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/23157. Accessed 2025-11-24.
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 on 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 ... need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. with directions for making all sorts of wings, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. ... with many excellent prescriptions, of singular [remedy] in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improv'd, with the Addition of Four Hundred Recipes, sent to the Author by several worthy Persons. London: Richard Ware I, 1743.
Harrison , S. (1743). 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 on 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 ... need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. with directions for making all sorts of wings, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. ... with many excellent prescriptions, of singular [remedy] in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. by mrs. sarah harrison, of devonshire. the third edition, corrected and improv'd, with the addition of four hundred recipes, sent to the author by several worthy persons. London: Richard Ware I.
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