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Mason, Charlotte. The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing the most select Bills of Fare, properly disposed, for Family Dinners of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen ; with Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen ; and several deserts : including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, and full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, by which a continual change may be made, as wanted, from the several Bills of Fare. Likewise Directions for Brewing, Making English Wines, Raspberry, Orange, and Lemon-Brandies, &c. Also Remarks on Kitchen-Poisons, and necessary cautions thereon. Originally published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, Who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion. A new edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved, to the present time.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 2424, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/2424. Accessed 2024-10-12.

@book{ wphp_2424
  author={Mason,Charlotte},
  year={1786},
  title={The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing the most select Bills of Fare, properly disposed, for Family Dinners of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen ; with Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen ; and several deserts : including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, and full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, by which a continual change may be made, as wanted, from the several Bills of Fare. Likewise Directions for Brewing, Making English Wines, Raspberry, Orange, and Lemon-Brandies, &c. Also Remarks on Kitchen-Poisons, and necessary cautions thereon. Originally published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, Who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion. A new edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved, to the present time.},
  publisher={John Walter [Homer's Head, Charing Cross]},
  address={London},    }

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