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The complete English cook, or, Prudent housewife : being an entire new collection of the most genteel, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery : viz. roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheesecakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. : together with the art of marketing, and directions for placing dishes on table for entertainments : adorned with proper cuts, 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 ever yet published