The director: or, young woman's best companion : containing, above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick and surgery. To which are added, plain and easy instructions for chusing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and all other eatables: also, directions for carving, and made wines: likewise bills of fare for every month in the year. With a complete index to the whole. A book necessary for all families