1807 – Housekeeper’s Instructor | Famous Cookbook & Recipes, English Cuisine

The Housekeeper’s Instructor was an early English cook book by William Augustus Henderson that first appeared in 1791. It offers directions for preparing meals, cooking meat, and serving pastries, even though many of recipes do not include ingredient lists.

This fourteenth edition includes 11 full-page engravings which depict meat carving, serving, and table settings.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The housekeeper’s instructor ; or, Universal family cook. : Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches.
• Author(s): William Augustus Henderson
• Publisher: London: printed and sold by J. Stratford
• Edition: Fourteenth edition, 1807
• Binding: Full leather
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Size:  8.25 in x 5.5 in (21 cm x 14 cm)
• Collation: 448, [16] pp
• Illustrations: 11 engraved plates plus engraved frontispiece
• Contents Include:
  • Roasting, boiling, and carving meats
  • Pastries, pies, and confectionery
  • Table settings and domestic management

Condition:

Good. Full leather binding with original boards and a modern leather spine; binding secure. Light spotting and age toning throughout; leather loss on edges and corners.

Why Collect This?

• Early and widely reprinted English cookery manual
• Includes engraved carving and table plates

Item Number: #50112