Author: GRIMLEY, GORDON
Title: The Victorian cookery book. Edited with an introduction by Gordon Grimley
Description: London : Abelard-Schuman 1973. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. PROVENANCE: From the library of Hugo Dunn-Meynell. with his bookplate in the half-title. Physical description: 132 p. : plate. ill. facsims. ; 23cm. Summary: In this book Gordon Grimley has gathered a wide range of typical Victorian recipes. from some of the best-known cookery books of the day. Some are frankly exotic: A Turtle Bottom Dish. But others remind us of hat real British Cooking once was: an art based on simple ingredients of superb quality- good beef. mutton. game. Solid and satisfying. or frivolous and fantastic. all these recipes make for fascinating reading - and delicious eating. Subject: Snacks -Breakfast - Soup -Vegetables - Fish - Meat - Poultry - Sweet -Sauces - Drinks. Cooking - Cookery - recipes - English - British.ISBN: 0200720473. Weight in Kg appr.:

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