The new family receipt-book : or universal repository of domestic economy, including a fund of useful knowledge and experience in all the various branches of cookery, medicine, confectionery, pastry, brewing, distilling, pickling, preserving, perfumery, dyeing, gilding, painting, varnishing, agriculture, farriery, gardening, hunting, fishing, fowling, &c. &c. &c. From scarce, curious, and valuable select receipts and choice memorandums, with specifications of approved patent medicines, extracted from the records of the Patent Office; all the most serviceable preparations for domestic purposes, and numerous successful improvements in the ornamental and useful arts, manufactures, &c. Collected from private sources of information, as well as from foreign books and journals in all the languages of Europe