The perfect cook : being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c. now practised by the most famous and expert cooks, both French and English. As also the perfect English cook, or right method of the whole art of cookery, with the true ordering of French, Spanish, and Italian kickshaws, with alamode varieties for persons of honour. To which is added, the way of dressing all manner of flesh, fowl, and fish, and making admirable sauces, after the most refined way of French and English. The like never extant; with fifty five ways of dressing of eggs. By Mounsieur Marnettʻe.
1656
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The perfect cook : being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c. now practised by the most famous and expert cooks, both French and English. As also the perfect English cook, or right method of the whole art of cookery, with the true ordering of French, Spanish, and Italian kickshaws, with alamode varieties for persons of honour. To which is added, the way of dressing all manner of flesh, fowl, and fish, and making admirable sauces, after the most refined way of French and English. The like never extant; with fifty five ways of dressing of eggs. By Mounsieur Marnettʻe.
Uniform title
Patissier françois. English
Created/published
[London] : Printed at London for Nath. Brooks at the Angel in Cornhil, 1656.
Description
[24], 297, 299-300, 302-312, [2], 34, [14] p. ; (12mo)
Associated name
Marnettè, Mounsieur, active 17th century. author.
Note
A translation of: Mounsieur Marnettʻe. Patissier françois.
With an engraved frontispiece (A1v) representing the interior of a kitchen signed: Ro: Vaughan sculp.
With vertical half-title on leaf A12r.
Running title reads: The French pastry cook.
Leaf O12 is blank.
"The perfect English cooke" (caption title) begins new register and pagination.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "9ber [i.e. November] 8th".
With an engraved frontispiece (A1v) representing the interior of a kitchen signed: Ro: Vaughan sculp.
With vertical half-title on leaf A12r.
Running title reads: The French pastry cook.
Leaf O12 is blank.
"The perfect English cooke" (caption title) begins new register and pagination.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "9ber [i.e. November] 8th".
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M706
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1695[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R209431
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1695[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R209431
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Marnettè, Mounsieur, active 17th century. Pastissier françois. English. 1656.
Pastissier françois. English. 1656.
Pastissier françois. English. 1656.
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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M706
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228361. Marbled edges. Manuscript marks