This
book provides practical directions for making confectionary and pastry, and for
Baking with upwards of five hundred receipts consisting of directions for making
all sorts of preserves, sugar boiling, comfits, lozenges, ornamental cakes,
ices, liqueurs, syrups, Jellies, Marmalades, Compotes, Bread baking, Artificial
Yeasts, Fancy Biscuits, Cakes, Rolls, Muffins, Tarts and Pies.