A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY; FORMED UPON PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMY: AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF PRIVATE FAMILIES. BY A LADY. A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET: SOLD ALSO BY LONGMAN, BALDWIN, RICHARDSON, WHITTAKER, UNDERWOOD, SIMPKIN EDINBURGH ; CUMMING, MILLIKEN, AND KEENE, DUBLIN. And by every Bookseller and Newsman in Town and Country. 1824. Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence in Boards. ADVERTISEMENT. AS the following directions 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 no less injurious to those who eat than to those whose penury obliges them to abstain. Many receipts are given for things which, being in daily use, the mode of preparing them may be supposed too well known to require a place in a cookery-book; yet we rarely meet with butter properly melted, good toast-andwater, or well-made coffee. She makes no apology for minuteness in some articles, or for leaving others unnoticed, because she does not write for professed cooks. This little work would have been a treasure to herself when she first set out in life, and she therefore hopes it may prove useful to others. |