Beschreibung:

[William Kitchiner]: 'The Cook's Oracle; Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families: also, the Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces, and Flavouring Essences', London & Edinburgh, 1823, 5th edition, xx,484pp + 9 pages of 19th Century manuscript cookery receipts at end, recipes include German apple pudding, lemon cheese-cake, raisin wine, buttermilk cake, bread Turk butter puddings, ginger, dandelion and orange wines, treacle, tapioca and carrot puddings, etc, old calf gilt worn, boards and spine detached from text block but present