Modern cookery, in all its branches; reduced to a system of easy practice / [Eliza Acton].

  • Eliza Acton
Date:
1849
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    NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS PUBLISHED BY Messrs. LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMANS. ACTON (MISS).—MODERN COOKERY, In all its Branches, reduced to a System of Easy Practice. For the use of Private Families. In a Series of Practical Receipts, all of which have been strictly tested, and are given with the most minute exactness. By Eliza Acton. New Edition, to which are added. Directions tor Carving. Foolscap Svo. with Plates and Woodcuts, 7s. 6d. cloth. “ Khole of Miss Actofs recipes ‘ with a few trifling ea’ceptions, which are scrupniously specified, are confined to such as may be pcrjectly depended on, from having been proved beneath our own roof, and under our own personal inspection.' IVe add, moreover, that the recipes are alt reasonable, and never in any instance extravagant. They do not bid ns sacrifice ten pounds of excellent meat, that we may get a couple of quarts of gravy from it; uor do they deal with butter and eggs as if they cost nothing. Miss Acton's book is a good book in every way ; there is right-mindedness in every page of it, as welt as thorough know- ledge and experience of the subjects she handles.—Medical Gazette. AMY HERBERT. By a Lady. Edited by the Rev. William Sewell,B.D. of Exeter College,Oxford. New Edition. 2 vols. foolscap Svo. 9s. cloth. ANDERSEN.—THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE; Hans Christian Andersen, author of “The Shoes of Fortune,” “The Nightingale,” “ O. T.,” “ Only a Fiddler,” “ The Improvisatore,” etc. Translated by Mary Howitt. Fcp. Svo. 5s. cloth. ARTISAN CLUB (THE).—A TREATISE ON THE STEAM-ENGINE. In its application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navig.ation, and Railways. By the Artisan Club. Edited by John Bourne, C.E. New Edition. 4to. with 3d Steel Plates, etc., and about 350 Wood Engravings, 27s. cloth. BAKER.—RAILWAY ENGINEERING; Containing the most approved .Methods of laying out Railway Curves, and of setting out the Cuttings, Embankments, and Tunnels of Railways: with aGeneral and two Auxiliary Tables, for the Calculation of Earthworks of Railways, Canals, etc. Also, the Investigation of the Formula for the Superelevation of the exterior Rail in Curves. By T. Baker, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. Svo. 5s. clotli. BALL.—AN ACCOUNT OF THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TE.A. IN CHINA; derived from Personal Observation during an Official Residence in that Country of upwards of Twenty Years ; and illustrated by the'hest Aulliorities, Chinese as w'ell as European. \Vitli some Remarks on the Experiments now making for the Intro- duction of the Culture of the Tea Tree in other parts of the World. By S. Ball, K.sq, late Inspector of Teas to the East India Company in China. Svo. with Plates and Woodcuts 14s. cloth. , ’ BANFIELD AND WELD.—THE STATISTICAL COMPANION; Exhibiting the most interesting Facts in Moral and Intellectual, Vital, Economical and Political Statistics, at home and abroad. Compiled from Official and other authentic Sources by T. C. Baii6eld. Statistical Clerk to the Council of Education ; and C. R, Weld Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society. Foolscap Svo. 5s. cloth. ’ BARNES.—THE ELECTORAL LAWS OF BELGIUM Proposed as the Basis of Parliamentary Reform in England Translated, with the Commen- tary of M.J. B. Bivort, Secretary of the Cabinet of the Belgian Minister of the Interior By Philip Edward Barnes, Esq. B.A. F.L.S. Foolscap Svo. 3j. 6c(. cloth.
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