Everybody"s Dinner Book from One Shilling to Ten; Sweetmeat-Making at Home; The Pot-Luck Cookery Book: 700 Tried and Tested Recipes; Good Housekeeping: Menu and Recipe Book; The Book of Breakfasts with Menus, Recipes and Breakfast Lore; Round the World with an Appetite; What Every Cook Should Know; Chinese Cookery: A Hundred Practical Recipes; Uncommon Vegetables and Fruits: How to Grow and How to Cook
Published by Henry and Co; Hodder and Stoughton; Faber and Faber et al 1892-1951, London, 1892
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Good
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A smart selection of nine cookery books, offering a range of recipes, cuisines, a gastronomy world tour and more. Offering a wonderful selection of cookery books, ranging from traditional British cuisine to Chinese recipes, breakfast menus, and basic hints for the kitchen.In the original cloth bindings.A unique title included here is 'Chinese Cookery' by M. P. Lee (Li Mengping) which contain recipes designed to meet the needs of British people. Mengping was a diplomat based at the Chinese Embassy in London and in the appendix he provides the names and addresses of Chinese restaurants and shops in London.Also included here is Molly Castle's ventures abroad in the years between WWI and 1936. She gives the occasional recipe alongside descriptions of her travels in Paris, Cornwall, Mexico and Hollywood, with one chapter even recounting her conversations with a Klu Klux Klan member.The entirety of this set includes the following works: Uncommon Vegetables and Fruits: How to Grow and How to Cook by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1951, second revised edition) Good Housekeeping: Menu and Recipe Book by D. D. Cottington Taylor (1926, first edition) Sweetmeat-Making at Home by Mrs. M. E. Rattray (1908, third impression) Chinese Cookery: A Hundred Practical Recipes by M. P. Lee (1945, sixth impression) The Book of Breakfasts with Menus, Recipes and Breakfast Lore by F. Marian McNeill (1932, first edition) The Pot-Luck Cookery Book: 700 Tried and Tested Recipes Compiled by H. E. C. (1921, first edition) - Colour frontispiece. What Every Cook Should Know by Jessie Lindsay (1943, fourth impression of the popular edition) Round the World with an Appetite by Molly Castle (1936, first edition) Everybody"s Dinner Book from One Shilling to Ten by Lady Constance Howard (1892, first edition) In the original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. With only mild rubbing and bumping to majority of volumes, with fading or spotting to the spines of 'Uncommon', 'Good Housekeeping', 'Breakfasts' and 'Everybody's Dinner Book'. 'Breakfasts' also has a damp stain to the rear board and loss to the spine head. Front hinge starting but firm to 'Dinner Book'. Internally, binding tender in places to 'Dinner Book'. All other volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to most endpapers. Ownership bookplate of ones Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpapers of 'Uncommon', 'Every Cook', and 'Chinese Cookery'. Age toning to 'Sweetmeat' and scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves of 'Round the World'. Good.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Everybody"s Dinner Book from One Shilling to Ten; Sweetmeat-Making at Home; The Pot-Luck Cookery Book: 700 Tried and Tested Recipes; Good Housekeeping: Menu and Recipe Book; The Book of Breakfasts with Menus, Recipes and Breakfast Lore; Round the World with an Appetite; What Every Cook Should Know; Chinese Cookery: A Hundred Practical Recipes; Uncommon Vegetables and Fruits: How to Grow and How to Cook
- Author
- Lady Constance Howard; Eleanour Sinclair; F. Marian McNeill et al
- Publisher
- Henry and Co; Hodder and Stoughton; Faber and Faber et al 1892-1951, London
- Publication year
- 1892
- Condition
- Good
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- None
- Item weight
- 2 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 7.5" by 5"
Rooke Books PBFA
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