The Constance Spry Cookery Book - Softcover

Spry, Constance; Hume, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330233106 ISBN 13: 9780330233101

Publisher: Pan Books, 1972

Synopsis

First published in 1956, this cookbook includes nearly 2,000 recipes covering every dish, from poached eggs to petits fours.

About this title

Review:

'a cracking, really useful book' --The Spectator

'Grub Street publish the classics and The Constance Spry Cookery Book is right up there with the best. This is a page-turner for any lover of British food. A collectors cookbook but it's one to use and cherish.' --Mostly Food

'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday

'You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly.' --The Evening Standard

'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday

'A true kitchen bible. It a supremely practical book, useful still in explaining cooking processes. This reissue by Grub Street is a handsomely produced slab.'--Taste of Manchester

'One of the best cookbooks ever. You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly' --The Evening Standard

An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express

'A joy, not least because the pure, elegant design of the book does justice to both Rosemary Hume's recipes and Spry's very engaging prose style.' --The Guardian

An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express

About the Author:

Constance Spry was the subject of a major exhibition at London's Design Museum in 2004 and a fascinating biography in 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0330233106
• ISBN 13: 9780330233101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1280