(Victorian) H.E.C. The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Shellfish Spiral-bound pictorial wrappers

Spiral-bound pictorial wrappers

In Modern Jewish Baker

playwright Sherwood Anderson

Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking

especially when it’s spread onto crusty bread

(Victorian) H.E.C. The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Shellfish Spiral-bound pictorial wrappersIllus. with color plates. Pictorial orange and black cloth. First Edition. London: Maclaren, c. 1890 1900. An absolutely charming book of English recipes, with color plates showing meats of varying quality, dainty cakes, and other elaborate dishes. An ad for Victorian era cooking apparatus is on rear pastedown. And of course, the cover illustration of food animals and eggs dancing in a circle is marvelous. haricot of ox tail, fish pasties, arrowroot