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The complete English cook, or, Prudent housewife: being an entire new collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery : with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made-wines, &c. : together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment : and many other things equally necessary : the whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant