
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 56•
[MORE (HANNAH)] Cheap Repository. The Cottage Cook, or Mrs. Jones's Cheap Dishes, [August-November 1797]
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £701.25 inc. premium
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[MORE (HANNAH)]
Cheap Repository. The Cottage Cook, or Mrs. Jones's Cheap Dishes, Shewing the Way to do Much Good with Little Money, issue with the addition of prices and 'A Cheaper Edition for Hawkers' below imprint, 16pp., woodcut illustration on p.1, modern morocco-backed boards, gilt panelled spine [ESTC T34201], 8vo, J. Marshall and R. White S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Hawkers... Great Allowance will be Made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers, [August-November 1797]
Footnotes
Rare Cheap Repository tract by Hannah More, aimed through the use of a moral tale at helping less educated and poor women run efficient, economical kitchens which could still provide nutritious food to their families. The last two pages comprise four recipes and a few useful hints, some sounding ominously familiar today, others perhaps a little dated ("If the money spent on tea were spent on home-brewed beer, the wife would be better fed, the husband better pleased, and both would be healthier"). The present copy is one of several editions published between 1795 and 1800, all of which are scarce.