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THE
HOUSEKEEPER’s
VALUABLE PRESENT:
OR,
Lady’s Closet Companion.
BEING A
NEW AND COMPLETE
ART OF PREPARING
CONFECTS,
ACCORDING  TO
MODERN PRACTICE.
Comprized under the following Parts; viz.
I.Different Methods and Degrees of boiling and clarifying Sugar.
II.Methods of preserving various Fruits in Syrups, &c.
III.Methods of making Marmalades, Jams, Pastes, &c.
IV.Methods of making Syrups, Custards, Jellies, Blanch-mange, Conserves, Syllabubs, &c.
V.Methods of preserving various Fruits in Brandy.
VI.Methods of making a Variety of Biscuits, rich Cakes, &c. &c.
VII.Methods of mixing, freezing, and working Ice Creams.
VIII.Methods of preparing Cordials and made Wines.
With a Variety of other useful and elegant Articles.
By ROBERT ABBOT,
Late apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter,
Confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;
And sold by C. COOKE, No. 17, Pater-noster Row;
and all other Booksellers in Town and Country.
[Price 2s. sewed, or 2s. 6d. neatly bound.]
III
PREFACE.
DURING the course of my apprenticeshipwith Messrs. Negri andGunter, in Berkeley Square, manyhousekeepers to noblemen and gentlemen,on special occasions, were frequentlypresent, in order to observe ourpeculiar method of preparing confects.
Since I left Messrs. Negri andGunter, I have had frequent applicationsfrom those persons, as well asothers, for receipts and informationrespecting improvements and additionsto this art. But being engaged in theservice of several noblemen, and therebydeprived of the opportunity of attendingto the numerous applications from respectivehousekeepers for New Receipts,I determined to form the followingTreatise, that they might present it                        
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