The British Cookbook: authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

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The most comprehensive part of The British Housewife is its examination of mealtimes, especially that of dinner and “nuncheon. Raffald, Lehmann explains that: ‘The fairly simple dish and its short cooking time are typical, yet its detailed instructions would be deemed superfluous in a French book. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks on the outer edges,a couple of creases on the edges of the pages. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.

Her Century of British Cooking pulls together her life’s work, with over 200 recipes and is truly an important work of culinary history.

The British Cookbook] has 'em, along with roasts, trifles, all manner of cakes and breads, and much more.

This is the real recipe, made with a cheese paste that includes a spot of dark beer rather than a white sauce. Lehmann 374-75, 376) In this their foodways mirrored their growing political and cultural influence, and confidence, and distinguished them from their continental counterparts on all counts.She describes 'cook, eat, repeat' as the mantra of her life and, through her insight and wisdom, hopes to encourage the reader to get as much pleasure out of cooking as she does. The author is 98, so the book must look a bit old and … No, Marguerite is clearly still hip and the publisher, Grub Street, surrounded her with a marvelous production team. England in particular differed in other ways too; professional cooking was a male monopoly elsewhere but foreigners (in this context including Scots) remarked repeatedly at the number of women employed as cooks in the houses of the gentry and ‘middling sort.