The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual

PREFACE

TO

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

The whole of this Work has, a _seventh time_, been carefully revised; but this last time I have found little to add, and little to alter.

I have bestowed as much attention on each of the 500 receipts as if the whole merit of the book was to be estimated entirely by the accuracy of my detail of one particular process.

The increa...