Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changesis found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling andhyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled andhyphenated words is found at the end of the text.
IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND
A LARGE COLLECTION OF
ORIGINAL RECEIPTS,
INCLUDING NOT ONLY
THE RESULT OF THE AUTHORESS’S MANY YEARS OBSERVATION,
EXPERIENCE, AND RESEARCH,
BUT ALSO THE
CONTRIBUTIONS
OF AN EXTENSIVE CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE:
ADAPTED TO THE USE OF
PERSONS LIVING IN THE HIGHEST STYLE,
AS WELL AS THOSE OF
MODERATE FORTUNE.
Third Edition.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN.
1844.
The Receipts composing the Volume here submitted to the Public have beencollected under peculiarly favourable circumstances by a Lady ofdistinction, whose productions in the lighter department of literatureentitle her to a place among the most successful writers of the presentday. Moving in the first circles of rank and fashion, her associationshave qualified her to furnish directions adapted to the manners andtaste of the most refined Luxury; whilst long and attentive observation,and the communications of an extensive acquaintance, have enabled herequally to accommodate them to the use of persons of less ample meansand of simpler and more economical habits.
When the task of arranging the mass of materials thus accumulateddevolved upon the Editor, it became [iv]his study to give to them such aform as should be most convenient for constant reference. A glance atthe "Contents," which might with equal propriety be denominated anIndex, will, he flatters himself, convince the reader that this objecthas been accomplished. It will there be seen that the Receipts, upwardsof Sixteen Hundred in number, are classed under Eleven distinct Heads,each of which is arranged in alphabetical order—a method which conferson this Volume a decided advantage over every other work of the kind,inasmuch as it affords all the facilities of a Dictionary, without beingliable to the unpleasant intermixture of heterogeneous matters whichcannot be avoided in that form of arrangement.
The intimate connexion between the Science of Cookery and the Science ofHealth, the sympathies subsisting between every part of the system andthe stomach, and the absolute necessity of strict attention not less tothe manner of preparing the alimentary substances offered to that organthan to their quality and quantity, have been of late years sorepeatedly and so forcibly urged by professional pens, that there needsno argument here to prove the utility of a safe Guide