The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and Surgery. To which are added, Plain and easy Instructions for choosing Beef, Mutton, Veal, Fish, Fowl, and other Eatables. Directions for Carving, and to make Wines. Likewise Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families. By Sarah Jackson. Collected for the Use of her own Family, and printed at the Request of her Friends.

ID 7474
Title The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and Surgery. To which are added, Plain and easy Instructions for choosing Beef, Mutton, Veal, Fish, Fowl, and other Eatables. Directions for Carving, and to make Wines. Likewise Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families. By Sarah Jackson. Collected for the Use of her own Family, and printed at the Request of her Friends.
Contributors
Signed Author By Sarah Jackson.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination [4], 163, [1]
Date of Publication 1770
Edition Statement A new edition, corrected and greatly improved
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Date of First Publication
Imprint Printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12, and R. Baldwin, No. 47, in Pater-Noster-Row
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing London GB
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
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Width (cm)
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
Price (pence)
Total Price (in pence)
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Notes
Hand-Verified No
Verified Yes
Attempted Verification No

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Jackson, Sarah. The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and Surgery. To which are added, Plain and easy Instructions for choosing Beef, Mutton, Veal, Fish, Fowl, and other Eatables. Directions for Carving, and to make Wines. Likewise Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families. By Sarah Jackson. Collected for the Use of her own Family, and printed at the Request of her Friends.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 7474, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/7474. Accessed 2024-12-21. 

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