A collection of one hundred and thirty-seven approved receipts in pastry and cookery, viz. bread, pastes, baken meats, seed cakes, preserves, marmalades, jellies, confections, rules for a cook-maid, dressing of meat in different ways, fattening fowls, carving, &c., &c. To which are added, directions for making the best cosmetics. Washing gauzes, muslins, &c. and painting of rooms, stair cases, &c