1600-15 MACDONALD, Duncan. The new London family cook: or town and country housekeepers' guide; comprehending directions for marketing,... Practical Instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes and for dressing fish, venison, hares, butchers' meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varities. With the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. cookery for the sick and the poor. Directions of carving [...] Duncan Macdonald was head cook at the Bedford Tavern in Covent Garden. | |||||||