• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The court and country confectioner : or, the house-keeper's guide ; to a more speedy, plain, and familiar method of understanding the whole art of confectionary, pastry, distilling, and the making of fine flavoured English wines from all kinds of fruits, herbs, and flowers; comprehending near four hundred and fifty easy and practical receipts, never before made know. Particularly, Preserving. Candying. Icing. Transparent Marmalade, Orange, Pine-Apple, Pistachio, and other Rich Creams. Caramil. Pastils. Bomboons. Puff, Spun, and Fruit-Pastes. Light-Biscuits. Puffs. Rich Seed-Cakes. Custards. Syllabues. Flummeries. Trifles. Whips. Fruite, and other Jellies. Pickles, &c. &c. Also New and easy directions for clarifying the different degrees of sugar, together with several bills of fare of deserts for private gentlemen's families. To which is added, a dissertation on the different species of fruits, and the art of distilling simple waters, cordials, perfumed oils, and essences. By an ingenious foreigner, now head confectioner to the Spanish ambassador in England
  • Contributor: Borella Mr [Author]
  • imprint: London: printed for G. Riley, and A. Cooke, at their Circulating Library, Queen Street, Berkley Square; J. Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; J. Wheble, at No. 20. Pater-Noster-Row; and C. Etherington, at York, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([2],ii,3,[1],xxiii,[1],271,[1],46p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Confectionery Early works to 1800 ; Ice cream, ices, etc Early works to 1800 ; Wine and wine making Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Footnote: Braces in imprint
    English Short Title Catalog, T122787
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The final section, 'On distilling in general' has separate pagination but the register is continuous
    The ingenious foreigner = Señor Borella