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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/PLA

The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chimical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof. Faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience

Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?); Boot, Arnold de (1606-1653)

1653

The authorship of the "Discourse of several sorts of stones," by D.B. (p. 217-232) and the editorship of the entire work is attributed to Arnold de Boot. Cf. DNB.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/NAT

Natura exenterata, or, Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her : wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man

Philiatros

1655

Pagination irregualr. Preface signed: Philiatros. Anon. Includes index. References: Wing N241.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/HAR Contains digital media

The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook : containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order

Harrison, Sarah (fl. 1733-1777)

1738

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/ROB Contains digital media

The young ladies school of arts : Containing a great variety of practical receipts... Together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never before published

Robertson, Hannah (1724-1806)

1777

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/LAD

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.1)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/LAD

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/LAD

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/LAD

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.1)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/LAD

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

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