The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd: the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician. 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 chusing 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 second edition. Corrected and greatly improv'd by the author: particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view sheweth regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or in the genteelest manner. With a cut of thirteen dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste. Not in any other book extant: Dr. Mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure: the negro caesar's cure of poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake. To dress a turtle: and tabels ready cast up from one farthing to ten shillings; very useful for marketing, and adapted to the lowest capacity.
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Jackson, Sarah. The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd: the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician. 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 chusing 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 second edition. Corrected and greatly improv'd by the author: particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view sheweth regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or in the genteelest manner. With a cut of thirteen dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste. Not in any other book extant: Dr. Mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure: the negro caesar's cure of poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake. To dress a turtle: and tabels ready cast up from one farthing to ten shillings; very useful for marketing, and adapted to the lowest capacity.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 7517, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/7517. Accessed 2024-09-07.
Jackson, Sarah. The director: or, young woman's best companion. Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd: the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician. 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 chusing 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 second edition. Corrected and greatly improv'd by the author: particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view sheweth regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or in the genteelest manner. With a cut of thirteen dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste. Not in any other book extant: Dr. Mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure: the negro caesar's cure of poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake. To dress a turtle: and tabels ready cast up from one farthing to ten shillings; very useful for marketing, and adapted to the lowest capacity. London: Stanley Crowder and Henry Woodgate, 1755.
Jackson , S. (1755). The director: or, young woman's best companion. being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd: the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician. 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 chusing 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 second edition. corrected and greatly improv'd by the author: particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view sheweth regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or in the genteelest manner. with a cut of thirteen dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste. not in any other book extant: dr. mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure: the negro caesar's cure of poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake. to dress a turtle: and tabels ready cast up from one farthing to ten shillings; very useful for marketing, and adapted to the lowest capacity. London: Stanley Crowder and Henry Woodgate.
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