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Title: The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;
In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.

Author: Charlotte Campbell Bury

Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29232]

Language: English

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THE
LADY'S
OWN COOKERY BOOK,

AND NEW

DINNER-TABLE DIRECTORY;

IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND
A LARGE COLLECTION OF
ORIGINAL RECEIPTS,

INCLUDING NOT ONLY

THE RESULT OF THE AUTHORESS'S MANY YEARS OBSERVATION,
EXPERIENCE, AND RESEARCH,

BUT ALSO THE
CONTRIBUTIONS
OF AN EXTENSIVE CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE:

ADAPTED TO THE USE OF
PERSONS LIVING IN THE HIGHEST STYLE,

AS WELL AS THOSE OF
MODERATE FORTUNE.

Third Edition.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN.
1844.

PREFACE.

The Receipts composing the Volume here submitted to the Public have been
collected under peculiarly favourable circumstances by a Lady of
distinction, whose productions in the lighter department of literature
entitle her to a place among the most successful writers of the present
day. Moving in the first circles of rank and fashion, her associations
have qualified her to furnish directions adapted to the manners and
taste of the most refined Luxury; whilst long and attentive observation,
and the communications of an extensive acquaintance, have enabled her
equally to accommodate them to the use of persons of less ample means
and of simpler an