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Pot-Luck; seventh edition (revised and enlarged) of May Byron's Home Cookery Book. Over eleven hundred recipes from old family ms. books, with a number of special additions on invalid and convalescent foods, etc.
LIBRA - Rare TX715 .B9 1926 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, May, 1861-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English.
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy).
- Local Subjects:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy).
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, l, 439 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Seventh edition (revised. and enlarged).
- Manufacture:
- London and Aylesbury : Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd.
- Other Title:
- May Byron's Pot-Luck : over a thousand recipes from old family m.s. books
- Pot-luck or The British Home Cookery Book
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1926]
- Contents:
- Beef and mutton recipes
- Pork and veal recipes
- Fowl and game
- Soup recipes
- Fish recipes
- Vegetables and vegetarian dishes
- Salads
- Cheese dishes
- Egg dishes
- Savouries
- Sauces
- Pickles
- Puddings
- Pastry and sweet dishes
- Creams, custards, junkets, syllabubs, etc.
- Jams, jellies, preserves, fruit pastes, etc.
- Sweetmeats and candies
- Cakes
- Bread, rolls, buns, muffins, etc.
- Beverages
- Invalid and convalescent cookery
- Various extra recipes.
- Notes:
- "First Edition in 1914 ... Seventh Edition August 1926."
- "When preparing this edition, therefore, I have omitted several beverages which nobody is now likely to make; I have largely expanded Chapter XXI, on Invalid and Convalescent Cookery; and in Chapter XII I have inserted a number of extra dishes which will be found useful, interesting, and appetizing. Where possible I have translated obsolete phrases into modern English."--Preface.
- "Errata" on p. xliii.
- Red cloth boards lettered in black.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy has marginal marks and ms. annotations.
- Malgieri Colllection copy has label of Cooks Books , England pasted on back pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 1014492305
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