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The Art of Trussing ; or Trussing Game
Title page from Sarah Jackson, The Director: or Young Woman's Best Companion, London, 1770
Courtesy National Library of Medcine
As described on this page, Sarah Jackson's The Director: or Young Woman's Best Companion, (London, 1770) offers a plethora of 'plain' information for family cooks. In addition to three hundred easy recipes, it contains instructions for choosing the best foods at market; directions for carving meats and making wines; menus suggestions by month; and cures for illnesses and maladies. You can view the entire book here.
Read TranscriptThe Director: or, Young Woman's Best Companion.
Being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published: the whole makes a complete family cook and physican. Containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physickic and surgery.
To which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables. Directions for carving, and to make wines. Likewise bills of fare for every month in the year. With a complete index to the whole. a book necessary for all families.
By Sarah Jackson.
Collected for the use of her own family, and printed at the request of her friends.
A new edition, corrected and greatly improved by the author: particularly with an addition of several new cuts, which at one view shew regular and easy forms of placing the different sorts of dishes from two to nine in a course, either in the middling or genteelest manner. With a cut of 13 dishes, shewing how to set off a long table in a common way, or after the modern taste: not in any other book extant. Also several cuts representing the trussing of fowls, &c. dr. mean's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure. The negro cafar's cure for poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake.
london: printed for s. crowder, at no. 12, and r. baldwin, no. 47, in paten-nofter-row. 1770. [price is. 6d.]