The Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery, as they were presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own practise, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery, as they were presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own practise, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations
Other titles: The Queen's cabinet opened; A Queen's delight; The compleat cook
Classmark: Cookery A/M--
Creator(s): W. M
Publisher: Printed for Nathaniel Brooke
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1658
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], 300, [24], 123, [7] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/258197
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016474899705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
"The approvers names": prelim. p. [7]-[10].
The work consists of 3 parts: 1. The Queen's cabinet opened: or, the pearle of practice; accurate, physical, and chyrurgical receipts. -- 2. A Queens delighgt [sic]: or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying; as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters. -- 3. The compleat cook. Expertly prescribing the most reay wayes, whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry.
Parts 2 and 3 have separate title-pages; part 3 has separate pagination.
Additional description
Wanting: plate (frontis.)
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