1812 The New London Family Cook: Or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Author Duncan MacDonald offers a comprehensive domestic manual offering over a thousand recipes and directions for all aspects of household cookery, including meat, fish, poultry, game, soups, sauces, pickles, and confectionery.

He includes instructions on carving, marketing, preparing medicinal drinks, and managing a household.

Collated, illustrated with a frontispiece and nine further engraved plates. Collated, lacking one plate.

Undated; dated 1812 via the Wellcome Library.

The author was "head cook at the Bedford Tavern and Hotel, Covent Garden."

Loosely inserted is handwritten medical advice from 1888 from a medical practitioner named Leopold Saville, for a married lady suffering from gastric distress and constipation. He discusses making a scrofolosol phial, dosing the patient, and the importance of avoiding vinegar in the diet. He advises that claret or red Burgundy may be consumed in moderation.