Colonial Cookery, 1700-1749

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Throughout much of the early 18th century in what we now call the United States, the leading trends in cookery were dictated largely by imported French and British manuals and guides. These books, generally directed at upper-class women, not only provided recipes (at the time often called “receipts”) but also gave instructions on the proper way to set a table, the correct way make fruit preserves, or even how to fillet a fish.

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Five hundred new receipts in cookery, confectionary, pastry, preserving, conserving, pickling; and the several branches of these arts necessary to be known by all good housewives.
Five hundred new receipts in cookery, confectionary, pastry, preserving, conserving, pickling; and the several branches of these arts necessary to be known by all good housewives.
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Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment, balls, weddings, &c. at court ...
Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment, balls, weddings, &c. at court ...
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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 [of] 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 shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor ...
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 [of] 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 shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor ...
E. Kidder's receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars : who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays ... Ladies may be taught at their own houses.
E. Kidder's receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars : who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays ... Ladies may be taught at their own houses.
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Court cookery : or, The compleat English cook. Containing the choicest and newest receipts for making soops, pottages, fricasseys [etc.] ... with various ways of dressing most sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, wild, and tame; with the best methods of potting, collaring and pickling. As likewise of pastes, pies, pasties [etc.] ... Also of candying, preserving : with a bill of fare for every month of the year, and the latest improvements in cookery, pastry, &c.
Court cookery : or, The compleat English cook. Containing the choicest and newest receipts for making soops, pottages, fricasseys [etc.] ... with various ways of dressing most sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, wild, and tame; with the best methods of potting, collaring and pickling. As likewise of pastes, pies, pasties [etc.] ... Also of candying, preserving : with a bill of fare for every month of the year, and the latest improvements in cookery, pastry, &c.
Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. Confectioner to her late Majesty Queen Anne.
Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. Confectioner to her late Majesty Queen Anne.
Adam's luxury, and Eve's cookery, or, The kitchen-garden display'd : in two parts ... to which is added, the physical virtues of every herb and root
Adam's luxury, and Eve's cookery, or, The kitchen-garden display'd : in two parts ... to which is added, the physical virtues of every herb and root
The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron.
The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat ... Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron.
The court and country cook: giving new and plain directions how to order all manner of entertainments, and the best sort of the most exquisite a-la-mode ragoo's. Together with New instructions for confectioners ...
The court and country cook: giving new and plain directions how to order all manner of entertainments, and the best sort of the most exquisite a-la-mode ragoo's. Together with New instructions for confectioners ...
A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses
A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses