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Title

  • The housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion : being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ...

Other Title

  • Housekeeper's valuable present
  • Lady's closet companion

Names

  • Abbot, Robert, cook.
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [London] : Printed for the author and sold by C. Cooke ... and all other booksellers in town and country, [1790 or 1791?]

Contents

  • (from t.p.) I. Different methods and degrees of boiling and clarifying sugar -- II. Methods of preserving various fruits in syrups, &c. -- III. Methods of making marmalades, jams, pastes, &c. -- IV. Methods of making syrups, custards, jellies, blanch-mange, conserves, syllabubs, &c. -- V. Methods of preserving various fruits in brandy -- VI. Methods of making a variety of biscuits, rich cakes, &c. &c. -- VII. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working ice creams -- VIII. Methods of preparing cordials and made wines -- With a variety of other useful and elegant articles.

Headings

  • -  Confectionery--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Probable dates of printing suggested by Pennell based partially on the inscription.
  • -  Signatures: A-H⁶ I².
  • -  Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. [1]
  • -  Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 165
  • -  ESTC T202352
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy has inscription: Anne Jones, Dec. 18, 1791.
  • -  LAC scc 2019-04-05 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • xii, [1], 100 p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX783 .A22 1790Z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 73165384

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Abbot, Robert, Cook, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion: being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. [London: Printed for the author and sold by C. Cooke ... and all other booksellers in town and country, or 1791?, 1790] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/73165384/.

APA citation style:

Abbot, R. & Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. (1790) The housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion: being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. [London: Printed for the author and sold by C. Cooke ... and all other booksellers in town and country, or 1791?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/73165384/.

MLA citation style:

Abbot, Robert, Cook, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion: being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. [London: Printed for the author and sold by C. Cooke ... and all other booksellers in town and country, or 1791?, 1790] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/73165384/>.