The Young Lady's Companion  In Cookery, And Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, &c. Containing The newest and best Receipts for making all Sorts of Broths, Gravies, Soups, Ragoo's, Hashes, &c. Dressing several Sorts of Meats, Collering, Potting, and making Force-Meats, &c. Also Making of Cakes, Creams, Marmalades, Tarts, Puddings, Pies, Pasties, Biscuits, Custards, &c. Likewise Preserving and Candying Angelico, Apples, Cherries, Currants, Figs, Goosberries, Grapes, Oranges, Peaches, Nectarines, &c. Violets, Roses, Couslips, and other Flowers. And The best Method of Pickling Melons, Cucumbers, Barberries, Mushrooms,Purslane, &c. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth C. Hitch in Pater-Noster Row, J. Hazard against Stationers Hall, W. Bickerton and C. Corbett, without Temple bar, and R. Willock, in Cornhill, 1734.   [6116]

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION.  12mo (in 6s), pp. [xii], 204, contemporary sheepskin (worn); no blank end-papers, binding rubbed, joints slightly cracked.   
"The following Receipts were Collected a Gentlewoman who formerly kept a Boarding School; her often being Importun'd by her Friends, for Copies of the, has occasion'd their being published; thereby to oblige her Friends an easy Expence and save herself much Trouble.  We hope they'll prove acceptable to the Publick, being the most useful Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, and Candying, which are at present used, laid
down in an easy familiar Way" (Advertisement).  If one is to judge by the recipes, the pupils at her boarding school ate rather well.
Not in Cagle.  ESTC T63526 locates copies in the BL; and Kansas State
University, Lehigh University, Stanford, Library of Congress.

Price: £2,500