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21. The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams, preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of three hundred receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years of experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use : with directions for marketing

22. The new book of cookery, or, Every woman a perfect cook: containing the greatest variety of approved receipts in all the branches of cookery and confectionary, viz. : boiling, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing, hashing, baking, fricassees, ragouts, made-dishes, soups, sauces, puddings, pies, tarts, cakes, custards, preserving, candying, drying, potting, collarding, English-wines, &c. ... : to which are added, the best instructions for marketing, and sundry modern bills of fare : also directions for clear-starching and improving beauty : likewise a collection of phisical [sic] receipts for families, &c. : the whole calculated to assist the prudent housewife and her servants, in furnishing the cheapest and most elegant set of dishes in the various departments of cookery, and to instruct ladies in many other particulars of great importance too numerous to mention in this title page

23. An enumeration of the principal vegetables, and vegetable productions, that may be substituted, either in part or wholly, in place of wheat and other bread-corn, in times of scarcity: with short notices respecting the best modes of preparing them for use

24. The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide : in three parts ... : with a complete alphabetical index to each part : the whole, being faithfully collected by several very eminent and ingenious gentlemen, is now first published, at their earnest desire, for the general benefit of mankind

27. The director; or, Young woman's best companion: being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published : the whole makes a complete family cook and physican : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery : to which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables : directions for carving, and to make wines : likewise bills of fare for every month in the year : with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families