The Cook’s Oracle (William Kitchiner) Restaurant oven-baked onion bhajis and beetroot

oven-baked onion bhajis and beetroot and paneer kebabs

Some rubbing to extremities

dated 1997

Pictorial wrappers posing the question

Scarce in an early edition

The Cook’s Oracle (William Kitchiner) Restaurant oven-baked onion bhajis and beetrootFull title: The Cooks Oracle; containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families; also the Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces, and Flavoring Essences: Pastry, Preserves, Puddings, &c. and an Easy, Certain, and Economical Process for preparing Pickles in which they will be ready in a fortnight, and remain good for years. xii, 371 pp. Period calf,