Descrizione

12mo., with decorative head- and tail-pieces; green cloth, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy. High-quality facsimile re-issue of the very scarce original edition of 1744. Part I: Shewing the best and most approved Methods of raising and bringing to the greatest Perfection all the Products of the Kitchen-Garden; with a Kalendar shewing the different Products of each Month and the Business proper to be done in it; Part II: Containing a large Collection of Receipts for dressing all Sorts of Kitchen Stuff, so as to afford a great Variety of cheap, healthful; and palatable Dishes. Often cited as a 'vegetarian' treatise. Although the majority of the recipes are vegetarian, some (eg. Hodge-Podge) do use meat stock. Now uncommon in its own right, especially in this condition. Axford, p4; Bitting, p.514; Cagle, 541; Maclean, p.3; Oxford, p.74; Pennell, p.151 (all recording the original edition).