The French cook : Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.

  • La Varenne, François Pierre de, 1618-1678
Date:
1653
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Also known as

Cuisinier françois. English

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for Charls Adams, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Talbot neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1653.

Physical description

29 unnumbered pages, 4-276 pages : illustrations

Notes

A translation of: François Pierre de la Varenne. Cuisinier françois.
With engraved frontispiece.
Dedication signed: Du Fresne.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 27.".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
With: Cheap riches, or, A pocket-companion / by Nathanaell Church. London : Printed for John Perry, 1654.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) L624.
Thomason E.1541[1].

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 195:E1541[1]) s1999 miun s

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