Author: COLLINGWOOD (Francis) and WOOLLAMS (John):
Title: The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. The Different Methods Of Dressing Butchers Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish; And Of Preparing Gravies, Cullices, Soups, and Broths; To Dress Roots And Vegetables, And To Prepare Little elegant Dishes for Suppers or light Repasts: To Make All Sorts Of Pies, Puddings, Pancakes, and Fritters; Cakes, Puffs, And Biscuits; Cheesecakes, Tarts, And Custards; Creams And Jams; Blanc Mange, Flummery, Elegant Ornaments, Jellies, And Syllabubs. The various Articles in Candying, Drying, Preserving, And Pickling. The Preparation Of hams, Tongues, Bacon, &c. Directions For Trussing Poultry, Carving, And Marketing. The Making And Management Of Made Wines, Cordial Waters, and Malt Liquors. Together with Directions for Baking Bread, the Management of Poultry and the Dairy, and Kitchen and Fruit Garden; with a Catalogue of the various Articles in Season in the different Months of the Year. Besides a Variety of Useful And Interesting Tables. The Whole Embellished with The Heads of the Authors, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, and proper Subjects for the Improvement of the Art of Carving, elegantly engraved on fourteen Copper-Plates. The Second Edition.
Description: London: Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd..., 1797. 8vo, 203 x 122 mms., pp. [xxviii], 451 [452 adverts], including half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the two authors, 13 other engraved plates (12 before text and another at page 320), complete as called for, contemporary sheepskin, with modern reback, gilt spine, black morocco label; some foxing of plates, but a good copy with the inscription on the half-title, "Fanny Dyer? Sept. 15th/ 1832" and another that looks like "H. A. Messiter" on the top margin of the title-page F. Collingwood and J. Woollams had the unique distinction of having their first edition of 'The Universal Cook' of 1792, being translated into French and sold in France. Published in Paris in 1810 it was re-named ' Le Cuisinier Anglais Universal ou le Nec Plus Ultra de la Gourmandise'. This was the time of the war with Napoleon, but the reputation of London food and its Cooks stood high with foreigners. The first smart restaurant to open in Paris the same year as 'The Universal Cook' was published, was called La Grande Taverne de Londres, after the London Tavern, where John Farley its famous Chef was serving his tenure. Collingwood and Woollams had also had a spell at the London Tavern, so one assumes they were as well known as Farley. In spite of the fame and glory of Collingwood and Woollams' book being translated into French, the French publisher had qualms. In his introduction, he wrote: "The English must eat well, look at their 'embonpoint!' If occasional recipes seem odd, they will at least, 'cher lecteur,' broaden your experience, acquainting you with 'le catchup' and 'le browning' which are unknown even to our best chefs." (From Old Cooks Books.) Cagle 626.

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