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Title

  • The complete English cook : or, Prudent housewife. Being, a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing [etc.] ... together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of that kind extant.

Names

  • Peckham, Ann.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Leeds, G. Wright and J. Binns; [etc., etc., 1770?]

Headings

  • -  Cooking, English--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-03-04 update (2 cards)
  • -  LAC rwp 2019-03-12 review

Medium

  • iv, 5-242, [9] p. illus. 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX705 .P4 1770

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44028154

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Peckham, Ann, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The complete English cook: or, Prudent housewife. Being, a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing etc... together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of that kind extant. [Leeds, G. Wright and J. Binns; etc., etc., ?, 1770] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/44028154/.

APA citation style:

Peckham, A. & Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. (1770) The complete English cook: or, Prudent housewife. Being, a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing etc... together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of that kind extant. [Leeds, G. Wright and J. Binns; etc., etc., ?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44028154/.

MLA citation style:

Peckham, Ann, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The complete English cook: or, Prudent housewife. Being, a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing etc... together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of that kind extant. [Leeds, G. Wright and J. Binns; etc., etc., ?, 1770] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44028154/>.