The French cook : prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite or to advance the power of digestion : with the whole skill of pastry work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. The second edition carefully examined, and compared with the originall : and purged throughout, from many mistakes, and defects; and supplyed in diverse things, left out, in the former impression. With an addition of some choise receits of cookery lately grown in use amongst the nobility and gentry, by a prime artist of our owne nation. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchen to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
1654
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The French cook : prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite or to advance the power of digestion : with the whole skill of pastry work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. The second edition carefully examined, and compared with the originall : and purged throughout, from many mistakes, and defects; and supplyed in diverse things, left out, in the former impression. With an addition of some choise receits of cookery lately grown in use amongst the nobility and gentry, by a prime artist of our owne nation. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchen to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
Created/published
London : Printed for Charles Adams,at the Talbut neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1654.
Description
[24], 95, 106-297, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; (12mo)
Associated name
La Varenne, François Pierre de, 1618-1678, author.
Note
Frontis. = plate.
With numerous errors in pagination.
With numerous errors in pagination.
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 (CD-ROM, 1996), L625
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R26048
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R26048
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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L625
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183156. Price inscribed