The Country House Cookery Book / Christian Hesketh, Elisabeth Luard, Laura Blond.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hesketh, Christian, 1929-2006, author.
• Luard, Elisabeth, author.
• Blond, Laura, author.

Contributor:

• Nancy Klavans Cookery Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cooking, British.
• Dinners and dining--Great Britain--History.
• Country homes--Great Britain.
• Country homes.
• Dinners and dining.
• Great Britain.

Genre:

• cookbooks.
• Cookbooks
• History
• Cookbooks.
• Cookbooks -- 1980-1989.

Penn Provenance:

• Klavans, Nancy (donor)

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985.

Contents:

• 1. The Mistress of the Household Through the Ages
• 2. Country House Menus. Abbotsford, Roxburghshire; Badminton, Gloucestershire; Bardrochat, Ayrshire; Beaufort Castle, Northumberland; Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Blagdon, Northumberland; Boughton House, Northamptonshire; Cawdor Castle, Nairn; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire; Courteenhall, Northamptonshire; Deene Park, Northamptonshire; Drayton House, Northamptonshire; Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire; Easton Neston, Northamptonshire; Eaten Hall, Cheshire; Glamis Castle, Angus; Glyndebourne, Sussex; Gorhambury, Hertfordshire; Hatfield House, Hertfordshire; Holker Hall, Lancashire; Lilburn Tower, Northumberland; Longleat, Wiltshire; The Menagerie, Northamptonshire; Meols Hall, Lancashire; Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire; Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire; Sledmere, Yorkshire; Tichborne Park, Hampshire; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire; Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
• 3. The Household Offices. The meat larder; The feathered game and poultry larder; The fish larder; The dry larder; The still-room and store cupboard
• The salting-room and smokehouse; The dairy; The brewhouse and cellar; The country house garden; Household duties
• 4. Special Occasions. Dining in Scotland; Shooting lunches; Irish dinners; Grouse moor picnics; Hunting breakfasts; Nursery teas
• The Coming of Age of Viscount Lumley, 1878.

Notes:

• "First published in Great Britain by Century Hutchinson & Co. Ltd."--Title page verso
• Includes index.

Local Notes:

• Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.
• Klavans copy has dust jacket with protective transparent cover retained.

ISBN:

• 0312170386 (cloth) :
• 9780312170387

OCLC:

12982493