The modern cook's, and complete housewife's companion. [electronic resource] : Being the largest and best collection of new receipts for dressing all sorts of meat, fowl, and fish; and for making ragoo's, fricassees, and pastry of all sorts. In a method never before published. With instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the tables of princes, ambassadors, noblemen, and magistrates: As also the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. Adorned with copper plates, exhibiting the order of placing the different dishes, &c. on the table, in the most polite way. To which are prefixed, directions for a house steward. By Mr. Vincent La Chapelle.