The family-dictionary; or, Household companion: Containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, boots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of pastry ware, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak’d, boyled, or fried, &c. III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, gellies, creams, pickles, &c. IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, ... English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c. Cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh, cordial waters. V. The making of all sorts of rare perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beautifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums. VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick. VII. The preparations of several choice medicines, ... The second edition, corrected, and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physic.
London: Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, in Fleet-street: And sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1696. Second edition. Octavo 7 X 4 ½ inches A4, B-Z8, Aa-Cc8./ Errata on p. 393./ Publisher's advertisements last 7 unnumbered pages. This copy is bound.....