MASON, Charlotte
The Ladies’ Assistant for regulating and supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery &c. Containing the most select Bills of Fare, properly disposed, for Family Dinners of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen … Likewise Directions for Brewing, making English Wines … Sixth Edition, enlarged, corrected and improved to the Present Time.
London, J. Walter, 1787
8vo, later faux snakeskin binding with manuscript title on spine, [xvi], 484 p., [14] (index); good copy, 2 additional handwritten recipes inserted, few stains, repairs on page 293 without loss of text, last five pages of index missing starting from letter S
Sixth edition of this pioneering gastronomical work first published in 1773 and first edition with this title. Charlotte Mason’s 1787 cookbook is a comprehensive source of late eighteenth-century English recipes, bills of fare and cookery instructions. It contains some of the earliest recipes for sandwiches and more unique dishes such as ‘viper broth’.
