The Cook and Housewife's Manual. A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management.
Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd, Tweddale Court; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1856. Duodecimo (17 x 11 cm.), xv, 688 pages. Index. Table of contents. Illustrated. Bills of Fare. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Tenth Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged". An extensive household compendium, with twelve hundred fifty-four recipes in narrative form. According to Oxford, this book first appeared in 1826. The sixth edition was the first to incorporate, "A Treatise on Domestic.....