The accomplisht cook, or The art & mystery of cookery. : Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready ways for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, with variety of sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of pastes; the best directions for all sorts of kickshaws, also the terms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for all seasons of the year, with other a-la-mode curiosities The fifth edition, with large additions throughout the whole work: besides two hundred figures of several forms for all manner of bak'd meats, either flesh, or fish) as pyes tarts, custards; cheesecakes, and florentines, placed in tables, and directed to the pages they appertain to. Approved by the fifty five years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of great honour.
1685
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The accomplisht cook, or The art & mystery of cookery. : Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready ways for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, with variety of sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of pastes; the best directions for all sorts of kickshaws, also the terms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for all seasons of the year, with other a-la-mode curiosities The fifth edition, with large additions throughout the whole work: besides two hundred figures of several forms for all manner of bak'd meats, either flesh, or fish) as pyes tarts, custards; cheesecakes, and florentines, placed in tables, and directed to the pages they appertain to. Approved by the fifty five years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of great honour.
Created/published
London : Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Bear and Star in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1685.
Description
[32], 256, 261-276, 273-461, [19] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; (8vo)
Associated name
May, Robert, 1588- author.
Note
With frontis. portrait (A1v) of the author.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. opening: sig.S4r- almond tarts.
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), M1394
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R28128
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R28128
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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M1394
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172683. -Plates. Cambridge style binding; (re-backed)