Mrs Glasse, 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, The New...

Mrs Glasse, 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, The New Edition with all the Modern Improvement: and also the Order of a Bill of Fare for each Month, in the Manner the Dishes are to be placed upon the Table, in the present Taste'. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was the best-selling cookery book of the 18thC, with copies being owned by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. It contains the first printed recipe for 'Currey the Indian Way'. Published in London in 1774. Rebound by Bayntun, Binder, Bath, England in brown leather with red morroco title label to spine.

Estimate:£150

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