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Housekeepers Instructor (1802)


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Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, black morocco label on spine, light overall wear, joints cracked but holding, portion of spine label missing, occasional light spotting.

The rare FIRST EDITION of Haselhurst’s popular provincial English cookbook.

"As the information, contained in this little volume, is not carelessly copied from any similar work, but is really the fruit of twelve years of valuable experience, as housekeeper in very respectable families, and twenty years of diligent practice, as a confectioner and instructor of young persons.in Sheffield;—the author humbly hopes, by the accomplishment of her work, to deserve that patronage." - from the preface.

Recipes include "To stew a breast of Veal;" "To pot Lobsters;" "A Rook pye;" "To make Bullace or Sloe Cheese" (bullace is a type of wild plum and sloe is a fruit also known as blackthorn,); and "To pickle Nasturtium Buds."

At the end is a useful index as well as a list of more than 250 subscribers. A good copy of a rare cookbook.

Abebooks

Over £2,000

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