The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion: containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &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, as ales, meads, metheglin, 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, beatifying 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. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick.

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  • The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion: containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &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, as ales, meads, metheglin, 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, beatifying 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. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick.
  • Title continues: VII. The preparations of several choice medicines, physical, and chirurgical, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs, essences, syrups; pouders, electuaries, pills, oils, ointments, cerecloths, and emplasters. Fitted for a family use, in curing mos diseases incident to men, women, and children
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Imprint
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.
Publication year
1696-1696
ESTC No.
R223738
Grub Street ID
97512
Description
[8], 393, [7] p. ; 8⁰
Note
The first edition title page reads: "By J. H.", apparently a pseudonym for William Salmon, whose name appears on all subsequent editions (cf. Wing; DNB).

With errata and seven final advertisement pages.
Uncontrolled note
Attributed to "J. H." in Wing (2nd ed.), H66aA; 1st ed. Wing number: S429