The lady's complete guide; or, cookery in all its branches : containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by observation and practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant, besides a great variety of others which have never before been offered to the public ... To which is added ... the Complete brewer ... also the Family physician ... / by Mrs. Mary Cole.

  • Cole, Mary, active 1788.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The lady's complete guide; or, cookery in all its branches : containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by observation and practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant, besides a great variety of others which have never before been offered to the public ... To which is added ... the Complete brewer ... also the Family physician ... / by Mrs. Mary Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE To the Firfi Edition, with a few Lines relative to the Third. HAT there have been many publications on the \ fubjedt of Cookery, I am willing to admit; but, however extraordinary it may appear, the number of treatifes on that ufeful art, have rendered another ab- folutely neceflary. It is neither my wifh, nor my intention, to depre- ciate the productions of others; I mean only to apo- logize for introducing a new work, on a fubjedt appa- rently fo much exhaufted; and I hope I fhall not be accufed of vanity when I declare, that I think THE LADY’s COMPLETE GUIDE will anfwer the pur- pofe of all the books which have hitherto appeared on this interefting bufinefs. It is indeed a library of cookery ; and contains the eflence of all the eftablifhed modern authors, befides a great number of Original Receipts. I flatter myfelf that I fhall be thought entitled to the approbation of my readers, for my careful felec- tion of thofe articled'••which I have gathered ' from others. I have endeavoured to be more fyftematic than my predeceflors in this walk, and consequently lefs confufed; and, like the fagds of the law, I have quoted my author, where the receipt is not original; fo that the cook, like the barrifter, may know upon what authority he adts; and he will fometimes find the names of three or four celebrated cooks to eftablifh a Angle receipt. _ When I have found the fame receipt in three or four different publications, I have fometimes quoted all their [^3] . names.