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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Eliza Leslie
Eliza Leslie ruled American kitchens before the Civil War, and Directions for Cookery is the reason. Introductory hints, weights and measures, then the full national repertoire: soups, fish, shell fish, and directions for cooking meat, beginning properly with beef. The most popular American cookbook of its century, complete. Take directions from the original authority.
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37 chapters
- 1Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
- 2TENTH EDITION, WITH IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY RECEIPTS. 1840.
- 3GENERAL CONTENTS.
- 4PREFACE
- 5INTRODUCTORY HINTS.
- 6WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
- 7DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY, IN ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES.
- 8SOUPS.
- 9FISH.
- 10SHELL FISH
- 11DIRECTIONS FOR COOKING MEAT. BEEF.
- 12VEAL.
- 13MUTTON AND LAMB.
- 14PORK, HAM, ETC.
- 15VENISON, ETC.
- 16POULTRY, GAME, ETC.
- 17GRAVY AND SAUCES.
- 18PLAIN SAUCES.
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