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The compleat city and country cook : or, Accomplish'd housewife. Containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c Illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates, directing the regular placing the various dishes on the table, from one to four or five courses: Also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year. Likewise, the horse-shoe table for the ladies at the late instalment at Windsor; ... /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carter, Charles
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis, in Pater-noster-Row: and S. Austen in St Paul's Church-yard, 1736.
Edition:	The second edition, with large additions.
Subjects:	Cooking, English > Early works to 1800. Traditional medicine > England > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800. Cookery > Early works to 1800. Medicine, Popular. Cooking, English.

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