The Female Economist; or, A Plain System of Cookery: for the Use of Families, containing Eight Hundred and Fifty Valuable Receipts (Mrs. Smith) International and a pink lentil soup

and a pink lentil soup with lamb meatballs that one critic called "Jerusalem in a bowl

Foreword by Sanford Larkey

It is the desire to get involved "the secret ingredient"

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The Female Economist; or, A Plain System of Cookery: for the Use of Families, containing Eight Hundred and Fifty Valuable Receipts (Mrs. Smith) International and a pink lentil soup[iii] xxiv, 350 pp. Frontis. engraving of game lying on a table, awaiting plucking and preparing. Period 3 4 cloth & marbled boards. Third Edition. London: Mathews & Leigh, 1810. One of the more influential early nineteenth century English cookbooks, with revised editions appearing as late as 1828. The author intended this work to be a practical guide for " Females in the middle classes of society, who superintend their own family affairs, and who