Joseph Menon - La cuisinière bourgeoise, suivie de l'office - 1775

Rare edition of one of the most influential cookery works in 18th-century France and it constitutes at once a practical cookbook, a guide to domestic economy and a treatise on household organization intended for bourgeois families and maîtres d’hôtel -

The author methodically sets forth the principles for choosing the best foods, recognizing the quality of meats, fish and vegetables, as well as the techniques of carving, preparation and service of dishes -

The work gathers a very large number of recipes for soups, starters, ragouts, fricassees, poultry, game, fish, pastries, entremets and desserts, adapted to the means of a well-off but not aristocratic household -

The author also provides menus corresponding to the different seasons, explanations of the culinary vocabulary of his era, and guidance concerning the utensils necessary for the proper conduct of a kitchen -

Joseph Menon - La cuisinière bourgeoise, suivie de l'office - 1775 -
360 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its full brown morocco leather of the period, wear from use, some minor defects on boards and spine, bumped heads, foxing on corners and edges, red edges, spine with raised bands ornate, gilded lettering -

Good interior condition, some stains, handwritten annotations, marbled endpapers in decent condition, manuscript bookplate; Le moine avocat à Corbie près d'Amiens en Picardie, good copy -

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