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Title

  • The town & country cook, or, Young woman's best guide in the whole art of cookery : giving particular directions for roasting, boiling, broiling, frying, and stewing, and the most approved methods of making hashes, sauces, gravies, fricasees, soups, &c. &c. : together with the whole art of pastry, and the choicest receipts for cakes, &c., to which are added many other particulars.

Other Title

  • Town & country cook
  • Town and country cook
  • Young woman's best guide in the whole art of cookery
  • Half title: Town and country cook, or, Young woman's best guide

Names

  • Partridge, Ann.
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for W. Lane ... and sold by all other booksellers, [ca. 1780]

Headings

  • -  Cooking, English--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770.
  • -  An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece, but its own t.p. Cf. Maclean.
  • -  Signatures: A² B-G⁶ H⁶(-H6).
  • -  Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 159
  • -  Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 141
  • -  ESTC N65587
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-03-04 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 84 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX705 .T57

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 73176754

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Partridge, Ann, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The town & country cook, or, Young woman's best guide in the whole art of cookery: giving particular directions for roasting, boiling, broiling, frying, and stewing, and the most approved methods of making hashes, sauces, gravies, fricasees, soups, &c. &c.: together with the whole art of pastry, and the choicest receipts for cakes, &c., to which are added many other particulars. [London: Printed for W. Lane ... and sold by all other booksellers, 1780] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/73176754/.

APA citation style:

Partridge, A. & Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. (1780) The town & country cook, or, Young woman's best guide in the whole art of cookery: giving particular directions for roasting, boiling, broiling, frying, and stewing, and the most approved methods of making hashes, sauces, gravies, fricasees, soups, &c. &c.: together with the whole art of pastry, and the choicest receipts for cakes, &c., to which are added many other particulars. [London: Printed for W. Lane ... and sold by all other booksellers] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/73176754/.

MLA citation style:

Partridge, Ann, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The town & country cook, or, Young woman's best guide in the whole art of cookery: giving particular directions for roasting, boiling, broiling, frying, and stewing, and the most approved methods of making hashes, sauces, gravies, fricasees, soups, &c. &c.: together with the whole art of pastry, and the choicest receipts for cakes, &c., to which are added many other particulars. [London: Printed for W. Lane ... and sold by all other booksellers, 1780] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/73176754/>.