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Book/Printed Material The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife Compleat city and country cook / Accomplish'd housewife

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Title

  • The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife : containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing [of] the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year : likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor ...

Other Title

  • Compleat city and country cook
  • Accomplish'd housewife

Names

  • Carter, Charles.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen ..., 1732.

Headings

  • -  Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
  • -  Traditional medicine--Early works to 1800

Genre

  • Bookbinding (Binding)--DLC

Notes

  • -  "To which is added by way of appendix, near two hundred of the most approv'd receipts in physick and surgery for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families, the collection of a noble lady deceased, a work design'd for the good, and absolutely necessary for all families."
  • -  Signatures: A⁴ B-S⁸ T⁴.
  • -  LC copy: Fine binding.
  • -  Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 78
  • -  Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 148-149
  • -  ESTC T30998
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-02-26 no edits (2 cards)
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Medium

  • viii, 280 p., 49 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX705 .C28 1732

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44028087

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Carter, Charles, Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing of the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year: likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen, 1732. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/44028087/.

APA citation style:

Carter, C., Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy & Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. (1732) The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing of the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year: likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44028087/.

MLA citation style:

Carter, Charles, Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing of the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year: likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen, 1732. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44028087/>.