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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
by Hazlitt, William Carew · Page 35 of 146 · 50,922 words
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I have not specifically described:-- 1. The Book of Carving. W. de Worde. 4to, 1508, 1513. Reprinted down to 1613. 2. A Proper New Book of Cookery. 12mo, 1546. Often reprinted. It is a recension of the "Book of Cookery," 1500. 3. The Treasury of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets. By John Partridge. 12mo, 1580, 1586; and under the title of "Treasury of Hidden Secrets," 4to, 1596, 1600, 1637, 1653. 4. A Book of Cookery. Gathered by A.W. 12mo, 1584, 1591, etc. 5. The Good Housewife's Jewel. By Thomas Dawson. In two Parts, 12mo, 1585. A copy of Part 2 of this date is in the British Museum. 6. The Good Housewife's Treasury. 12 mo, 1588. 7. Cookery for all manner of Dutch Victual. Licensed in 1590, but not otherwise known. 8. The Good Housewife's Handmaid for the Kitchen. 8vo, 1594. 9. The Ladies' Practice; or, a plain and easy direction for ladies and gentlewomen. By John Murrell. Licensed in 1617. Printed in 1621, and with additions in 1638, 1641, and 1650. 10. A Book of Cookery. By George Crewe. Licensed in 1623, but not known. 11. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen. 12mo, 1630. 12. The Ladies' Cabinet Opened. By Patrick, Lord Ruthven. 4to, 1639; 8vo, 1655. 13. A Curious Treasury of Twenty Rare Secrets. Published by La Fountaine, an expert Operator. 4to, 1649. 14. A New Dispensatory of Fourty Physical Receipts. Published by Salvatore Winter of Naples, an expert Operator. 4to, 1649. Second edition, enlarged: same date. The three last are rather in the class of miscellanies. 15. Health's Improvement; or, Rules comprising the discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation. By Thomas Muffet (or Moffat), M.D. Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennett, M.D. 4to, 1655. 16. The Queen's Closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery.... Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesties own Receipt Books. By W.M., one of her late Servants.... London, 1655, 8vo. The same, corrected and revised, with many new and large Additions. 8vo, 1683. 17. The Perfect Cook: being
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