The Complete Confectioner and Family Cook.: Including all the late improvements in Confectionary, perserving, pickling, jellies, creams, pastry, baking and cookery.
by CAIRD, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. , 1809. First edition. Includes many recipes for still popular Scottish sweets, oat cakes, bannocks, shortbread, barley sugar, apple dumplings, and apple fritters, as well as recipes such as macaroni and cheese. John Caird was a grocer and confectioner based in Edinburgh, known for his internationally imported fruits and spices. This work is notable for containing the first known recipe for marmalade ice cream. Octavo. Original paper boards, original spine label. Engraved frontispiece, and 7 engraved plates. Rubbing to corners, wear to spine, old paper repairs to ends of spine, staining to boards, sporadic light spotting to pages, plates 1 and 2 torn but neatly repaired, blank margin on plate 3 torn but without loss to image or text. Ownership contemporary signatures of Roddam Falder to front free endpaper, and Elizabeth Dale, Lubberton [Liberton] to the title page.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110294
- Title
- The Complete Confectioner and Family Cook.
- Author
- CAIRD, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
- Date Published
- 1809
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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