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Mason, Charlotte. The lady's assistant, for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing One hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners, of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; with Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts: Including Likewise, The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, with Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: 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-to which is now added, an appendix, containing many additional receipts to the last publication ; in which are directions for brewing, making English Wines, Rasberry, Orange, and Lemon Brandies, &c. With Remarks on Kitchen-Poisons, and necessary cautions thereon.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 2453, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/2453. Accessed 2024-04-28.

@book{ wphp_2453
  author={Mason,Charlotte},
  year={1805},
  title={The lady's assistant, for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing One hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners, of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; with Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts: Including Likewise, The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, with Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: 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-to which is now added, an appendix, containing many additional receipts to the last publication ; in which are directions for brewing, making English Wines, Rasberry, Orange, and Lemon Brandies, &c. With Remarks on Kitchen-Poisons, and necessary cautions thereon.},
  publisher={John Walter [Homer's Head, Charing Cross]},
  address={London},    }

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