The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined

Transcriber's Note: This cover was created for this edition using the plain red cover and the original title page and is placed in the public domain.
All spelling on the monthly menus was retained as printed, for example, Begetables. In the remaining text, spelling was only changed where a clear majority of usage could be found in the same text. For example, benshamelle for béchamel was retained while posssible for possible was corrected.


COMPRISING AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING EVERY ARTICLE REQUISITE FOR FURNISHING THE TABLES OF THE NOBLEMAN, GENTLEMAN, AND TRADESMAN. BY
JOHN MOLLARD, Cook;
Lately one of the Proprietors of Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; now removed to Dover Street, Piccadilly, formerly Thomas's. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY J. NUNN, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. 1802. T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

T he mode of cookery which the author of the following sheets has pursued for a series of years having obtained the most distinguished approbation of the public, has induced him to commit his practice to paper; in doing which, a deviation has been made from the usual introductory methods of other treatises of the kind, in omitting to give particular directions for the choice of fish, meats, poultry, and vegetables, and at what times they respectively might be in season, &c. &c. the author conceiving the simpler method to be the most acceptable: and, therefore, as actual knowledge must ever supersede written forms, he would advise a frequent attendance at the different markets, fully assured that experience will convey greater instruction in marketing than all the theories which could be advanced. There are, nevertheless, some useful observations interspersed in the course of the work for that purpose; the author having confined himself chiefly to the practical part of cookery; he has also given some directions in a branch of the confectionary business: in both of which it has been his constant endeavour that they might be rendered as simple and easy as possible, and that economy might pervade the whole.