18 books like The cook's oracle
The cook's oracle
The processes of cookery are very few: author has endeavoured to describe each, in so plain and circumstantial a manner, as it will be easily understood, even by the amateur, unacquainted with the practical part of culinary concerns.
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Modern cookery, in all its branches
Eliza Action’s masterpiece set out the fundamentals of domestic English cookery and offered a wealth of dishes for every occasion. The recipes are a model of sensible instruction for preparing food simply but well. This authoritative book was not only a guide to the best English cooking, but unusually for the time, it also contained recipes for German, Indian, and Caribbean dishes. Acton’s book…
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The experienced English housekeeper
The Experienced English Housekeeper is a cookery book by the English businesswoman Elizabeth Raffald (1733–1781). It was first published in 1769, and went through 13 authorised editions and at least 23 pirated ones.
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The art of cookery made plain and easy
"Revised and republished many times since its 1747 debut, this cookbook was a bestseller in England and the United States for more than 100 years. Author Hannah Glasse dismisses French cookery as fussy and expensive, focusing instead on standards of Anglo-American cuisine. Simple dishes, from soups to cakes, feature straightforward directions"--
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Mrs Beeton's every day cookery and housekeeping book
I have a copy with this title and no copyright date. If you would like more specific information, communicate with me. There are several advertisers in the book. Penciled inside the front cover is 3/6 - I have taken that to mean this book sold for 3 Shillings/sixpence and indeed, there is a listing in the book: Ward, Lock & Co.'s List of Standard Reference Volumes, Popular useful Books, Approved…
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table
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The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook
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A new system of domestic cookery
Excerpt: ?As the directions which follow were intended for the conduct of the families of the authoress?s own daughters, and for the arrangement of their table, so as to unite a good figure with proper economy, she has avoided all excessive luxury, such as essence of ham, and that wasteful expenditure of large quantities of meat for gravy, which so greatly contributes to keep up the price, and is…
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The lady's country companion
Jane C. Loudon's The Mummy! (1827) is a remarkable early work of speculative fiction, subtitled A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. Reanimating the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops, Loudon combines Gothic resurrection motifs with futuristic satire, imagining technological marvels such as automated vehicles, climate control, and advanced social systems. Written in the wake of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,…
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Family cookbook
'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.'
A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry,…
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Mrs. Putnam's receipt book and young housekeeper's assistant
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English housewifery exemplified
Learn quick and easy ways to prepare delicious dishes in Elizabeth Moxon’s book the English Housewifery Exemplified. In above FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY RECEIPTS, Giving DIRECTIONS in most PARTS of COOKERY; And how to prepare various SORTS of SOOPS, CAKES, MADE-DISHES, CREAMS, PASTES, JELLIES, PICKLES, MADE-WINES, &c.
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Bananas (Food)
Introduces bananas as a food--where they come from, how they are grown and harvested, and how they fit into the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. Includes a recipe for banana milkshake.
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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
These few paragraphs distill the contents and gives you a short overview and insight of this work and the author's style: In the poorer districts, in Normandy as well as in Brittany, Duke William would probably find very little alteration in the mode of preparing victuals from that which was in use in his day, eight hundred years ago, if (like another Arthur) he should return among his ancient…
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The queen-like closet, or, Rich cabinet
The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet' was a cookery book published in 1670 by the English writer, Hannah Woolley, on household management.
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The modern cook
An insider critique of the food business by award-winning chef Pam Brunton, interrogating sustainability in food culture and documenting the early days of her Green Michelin Star restaurant Inver When world-class chef Pam first opened Inver, her restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne, she set out to discover what makes 'modern Scottish food' - or if it even existed. This book traces Pam's journey…
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Summer Cooking (Cookery Library)
Summer Cooking - first published in 1955 - is Elizabeth David's wonderful selection of dishes, for table, buffet and picnic, that are light, easy to prepare and based on seasonal ingredients. Elizabeth David shows how an imaginative use of herbs can enhance even the simplest meals, whether egg, fish or meat, while her recipes range from a simple salade niçoise to strawberry soufflé. Finally,…
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Savouries a la mode
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