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The Victorian
(and earlier) Cookbooks Section...
1.
The Cook
And Housekeepers Complete & Universal Dictionary
Including a System of Modern Cookery in all its
Various Branches Adapted to the use of Private
Families also a Variety of Original Valuable
Information related to Baking, Brewing, Carving,
Cleaning, Collaring, Curing, Economy of Bees, of a
Dairy, Economy of Poultry, Family Medicine,
Gardening, Home Made Wines, Pickling, Potting,
Preserving, Rules of Health and also every other
subject connected with Domestic Economy.
By Mrs Mary Eaton, c1823, 544
pages.
2. Cookery
Reformed
or the
Lady’s Assistant. Containing a felect Number of the
beft and
moft approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry,
Preserving, Candying, Pickling
etc, together with a Diftint Account of the Nature of Ailments and what
are
moft fuitable to every Condition; to which is
added The Family Physician
compreghending and eafy,
fafe and certain Method of curing moft diseases
incident to the Human Body.
Published c1755, 396 pages.
3. Delicate
Feasting by
Theodore Child, c1890, 239 pages.
4. Directions
for Cookery
being a System of the Art in
its Various
Branches, by Miss Leslie c1837, 436
pages.
5. Handbook
of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional
Cooks
containing
the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food.
By Pierre Blot, c1884, 485
pages.
6. Lady’s
New Receipt Book A
Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, containing
Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling and
Preparing Articles According to the Most New
and
Approved Receipts. c1850, 522 pages.
7. Miss
Beecher’s Housekeeper and Health-keeper
containing Five Hundred
Receipts
 for Economical and Healthful Cooking, also
many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness.
c1873, 491 pages.
8. Miss
Parloa’s Kitchen Companion
'A Guide for all who would be
Good Housekeepers', c1887, 978 pages.
9. The
Modern Housewife Or Menagere
'comprising nearly 1,000
receipts for the economic and judisceous preparation
of every meal of the
day with those of the nursery
and sick room and minute directions for family
management in all its branches.' By Alexis Soyer,
c1850, 394 pages.
10. Mrs
Beeton’s Book Of Household Management
A Guide to Cookery in all its
Branches – Daily Duties, Meny Making, Mistress &
Servant, Home Doctor, Hostess & Guest,
Sick Nursing,
Marketing, The Nursery, Trussing & Carving, Home
Lawyer. 2,261 pages.
11. New
Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy and Practical
Housekeeper adapted
to all Classes of Society – Domestic Education,
Houses, Furniture, Duties of Mistress, Duties of
Domestics, The Storeroom, Marketing, Table and
Attendance, Care and Training of Children,
Care of
the Sick, Preparation of Food for Children and
Invalids, Preservation of Health,
Domestic Medicine,
The Art of Cookery, Perfumery, The Toilet, Cosmetics
and Five Thousand
Practical Receipts and Maxims.
C1872, 623 pages.
12. Miss
Leslie’s New Receipts For Cooking
comprising all the new and
approved
methods for preparing all kinds of foods
and much useful information all
subjects whatever
connected with general housewifery. c1852, 524
pages.
13. One
Thousand And One Useful Recipes
and Valuable Hints
About
Cooking & Housekeeping. c1890, 197 pages.
14. Our
Viands, 'Whence
They Come And How They Are Cooked, with
a bundle of
old recipes from cookery books of the last century.'
c1893,
311 pages.
15. Practical
Cooking And Dinner Giving
'A treatise containing
practical instructions in
cooking; in the
combination and serving of dishes; and in the
fashionable modes of entertaining at
breakfast,
lunch and dinner.' c1888, 391 pages.
16. The
Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined
‘comprising ample directions
for
preparing every article requisite for furnishing
the tables of the nobleman, gentleman and
tradesman’. c1802, 393 pages.
17. The
Complete Cook
'Plain and practical directions for cooking and
housekeeping with
upwards of seven hundred receipts,
also general directions for making wines.' c1846,
346
pages.
18. The
Cooking Manual Of
Practical Directions For Economical Every-Day
Cookery. By
Juliet Corson, c1877, 150 pages.
19. The
Cook’s Oracle and Housekeeper’s Manual
'containing
receipts for
cookery and directions for carving, also the art of
composing
the most simple and most highly finished
broths, gravies, soups, sauces,
store sauces and
flavouring essences, pastry, preserves, puddings,
pickles
etc.' c1830, 441 pages.
20. The
Cook’s Own Book
'being a complete Culinary Encyclopedia
for cooking
meat, fish and fowl, and composing every kind of
soup,
gravy, pastry, preserves, essences etc, with
numerous original receipts
and a complete system of
confectionery.' c1832, 347 pages.
21. The
Home Guide Or A
Book By 500 Ladies, embracing about 1,000 recipes
and hints
pertaining to cookery, the household, the
sick room, the toilet etc., 162 pages.
22. The
Housekeeper’s Book
'comprising advice on the conduct of household
affairs in
general and particular directions for the
preservation of furniture, bedding etc; for the
laying in
and preserving of provisions, with a
complete collection of receipts for economic
domestic
cookery.' By A Lady, c1837, 230 pages.
23. The
Imperial and Royal Cook
'consisting of the most
sumptuous made dishes, ragouts,
fricassees, soups,
gravies etc foreign and English including the latest
improvements in fashionable life.' By Frederick
Nutt, c1809, 356 pages.
24. Mrs
Mason’s Cookery Or
The Ladies’ Assistant, for regulating and
supplying
the table, being a complete system of cookery etc
also directions
for brewing and making wines. c1790,
533 pages.
25.
The London Art of
Cookery and
Domestic Housekeepers’
Complete Assistant, 'Uniting
the Principles of Elegance, taste and Economy
and
Adapted to the use of Servants and Families of Every
Description.'
c1811, 437 pages.
26.
The Modern
Cook 'a practical
guide to the culinary art in all its branches,
containing in
addition to English cookery the most
approved and recherché systems of French, Italian
and
German cookery adapted for the largest
establishments and for the use of private families.'
c1859, 579 pages.
27. The Professed Cook
or the Modern Art of Cookery,
Paftry and Confectionary Made Plain
and Easy, 1776,
681 pages.
Victorian
Etiquette Section...
28.
Our Deportment
'or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most
Refined Society,
including forms for letters,
invitations, etc etc also valuable suggestions on
home culture and training.' c1883, 443 pages.
29.
Routledge’s Manual Of Etiquette
– ‘etiquette for ladies, for
gentlemen, ball-room
companion, courtship and matrimony, how to dress
well, how to carve, toasts and sentiments.’ 261
pages.
Victorian
Alternative Medicine / Homeopathy /
& Herbals...
30. The English
Physician 'enlarged
with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines Made of
English Herbs not in any former impression of Culpeper’s British Herbal.' By Dr. Parkins, c1809,
436 pages.
31. The Cottage Physician.
‘Prevention, symptoms and
treatment; best-known methods in all
diseases,
accidents and emergencies of the home.' c1898, 657
pages.
32. The Complete
Herbalist or the
People Their Own Physicians by the use of Nature’s
Remedies; describing the Great Curative Properties
found in the Herbal Kingdom. c1878, 516
pages.
33. The Parent’s
Guide containing
the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood and their
Homeopathic Treatment. c1854, 465 pages.
34. The Homeopathic
Domestic Physician,
c1883, 485 pages.
35. The Homeopathic Theory And Practice Of Medicine
c1852, 656 pages.
36. British Homeopathic Pharmacopia
c1876, 445 pages.
37.
Hartmann’s Theory
of Acute Diseases and their Homeopathic
Treatment
Volume 1, c1847, 278 pages.
38. Hartmann’s Theory
of Acute Diseases and their
Homeopathic Treatment Volume 2,
c1848, 220 pages.
39. Guernsey’s Homeopathic Domestic Practice
c1857, 687 pages.
40.
Organon of The Rational Art of Healing.
By Samuel Hahnemann,
Translated by C .
E. Wheeler M.D., c1913
re-printing, 237 pages.
Victorian
Household Books...
41. Home Dissertations
'an Offering to the Household
for Economical Skill in Cookery,
Orderly Domestic
Management and Nicety in the Appointments of
Home.'
c1891, 204 pages.
42.
The Hearthstone of Life at Home
'A Household Manual
containing
hints and help for home making, home furnishing,
decorations,
amusements, health directions, the sick
room, the nursery, the library,
the laundry etc.'
c1883, 595 pages.
43. The Toilet of
Flora 'or A
Collection of the Most Simple and
Approved Methods
of Preparing Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders,
Perfumes and Sweet-
Scented Water, for the Use of the
Ladies,' 287 pages.
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Hundreds of
fascinating insights on
many different
cooking topics
together with
hosts of hard earned hints and tips on
alternative treatments
for ailments - plus advice on
keeping your
servants under control
and advice on all forms of
proper etiquette combined together in a
unique and convenient rare book collection on disc!
Learn from the
experts of old how to properly run, cook and care
for your household, as well as how to properly
behave in public and how to get the best from your
household staff! Many hours of
fascinating reading in 43 books offered now on a DVD at a truly affordable price
- and all in the best possible taste!
Note
to buyers.
Although the underlying book material is
now in
the public domain due to their age, much
additional editing, cropping and
deleting of erroneous
material has also been carried out
personally on all,
making this book set a unique and a much improved offering.
It is provided here at a
particularly low cost, mainly to cover materials
such as the DVD disk and label plus
various associated overheads including eBay fees.
