Charlotte Mason's 1787 cookbook is a comprehensive source of late eighteenth-century English recipes and contains some of the earliest recipes for sandwiches.
Menu ideas range from family dinners to banquet courses. Numerous fine recipes are included for meat, fish, savoury pies, breads, and vegetable dishes. Mason offers insight and instructions for sauces, gravies, and vinegars. She also includes a lengthy discourse on spices and seasonings, as well as their uses.
In the first edition of 1773 the book's author was described as 'a professed housekeeper, who had upwards of thirty years experience of families of the first fashion'. She was eventually identified in the second edition of 1775 as a Mrs. Charlotte Mason.
- Author: Charlotte Mason
- Paperback: 528 pages
- Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
- Published: February 2009 by Applewood Books