The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook : being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches : containing proper directions for dressing all kinds of butcher's meat, poultry, game, fish, &c. : also, the method of preparing soups, hashes, and made dishes ; with the whole art of confectionary, preserving, pickling, &c. : likewise, the making and keeping in perfection British wines ; and certain rules for brewing malt liquor, as well for family consumption as the regale of private visitants : to which is added, the complete art of carving, illustrated with engravings, explaining, by proper references, the manner in which the young practitioner may acquit himself at table with elegance and ease : also, bills of fare for every month in the year : with copper plates, displaying the best manner of decorating a table ; whereby every person will be enabled to add to the art of cookery the proper disposition of each article in its respective season : together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden : the whole formed on so new a plan, that the inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed cook receive that information which has never been made known by any preceding publication / by William Augustus Henderson, who has made the culinary art his study for upwards of forty years.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, W. A. (William Augustus) (Author)
Other Authors: Stratford, James, active 1789-1816 (Printer)
Language:English
Published: London : Printed and sold by J. Stratford, no. 112, Holborn-Hill, [approximately 1800]
Edition:The tenth edition.
Series:Sheila and Marilynn Brass Culinary Collection.
Subjects:
Genre:
Ownership and Custodial History:
Inscription in an early hand on recto of front free end-paper: "Bridget Swindells"; early pencil inscription on front paste-down: "John Williams, Mancheste[r]"; other inscriptions in early hands on recto of front free end-paper, including "Ro. Calf", "Ro. Cf", and mathematical/numerical notations.
Local Note:
MSU: Lacking plate IV; lacking plates [2] and [4] (second counting); lacking leaves 2Z2-3; print-outs of scans of missing leaves from British Library copy of the sixth edition (T127998) available in MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 113.
MSU: Length of string (binder's string) found between leaves G2v and G3r; removed, and now available in MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 113.
Binding Information:
In full contemporary reverse calf; boards tooled in blind (?).
Physical Description:440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered page, VII, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 21 cm (octavo)
Variant Title:
University family cook
Format: Book

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