The author of the American Cookery, not having an education sufficient
to prepare the work for the press, the person that was employed by
her, and entrusted with the receipts, to prepare them for publication,
(with a design to impose on her, and injure the sale of the book) did
omit several articles very essential in some of the receipts, and
placed others in their stead, which were highly injurious to them,
without her consent---which was unknown to her, till after
publication; but she has removed them as far as possible, by the
following