Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits: où l'on apprend à confire toutes sortes de fruits, tant secs que liquides; & divers ouvrages de sucre qui sont du fait des officiers & confiseurs; avec la maniere de bien ordoner un fruit. Nouvelle edition.
by MASSIALOT, François
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About This Item
Paris: Claude Prudhomme,, 1725. An early edition of this cookbook by the internationally renowned chef François Massialot (1660-1733), who served figures such as Philippe I the Duke of Orléans (the brother of Louis XIV) and the Marquis of Louvois. His influential recipes were translated into English as The Court and Country Cook (1702). The present work was first published in 1692. Octavo (162 x 97 mm). Contemporary calf, red spine label, compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges red. With 3 folding plates illustrating banquets. Binding rubbed with a couple of small scuff marks, joints repaired, extremities worn, sporadic dampstains to contents, short closed tear to fore margin of final prelim, pp. 165-6 torn at lower outer corner with loss to text. A good copy.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits:
- Author
- MASSIALOT, François
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Paris: Claude Prudhomme,
- Date Published
- 1725
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