Bringing recipes out of the past and into the kitchen.
A flick through the library
As of 2020, our little library contains 10 cookbooks published between 1868 and 1987 with at least one book per decade between 1900 and 1980.
8 of these were found online or in antique bookshops across London.
The 2 'babies' of our collection (The Complete Colour Cookbook, 1977 & The Best of Cooking, 1987) belonged to Miss HD's great grandmother, Bessie.
Most of our recipes have been recreated exactly as written - with varying levels of success!
Book 1
Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book
Compiled & Edited By: Mary Jewry
Year of Publication: 1868
Publisher: Fredrick Warne & Co. (Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, England, U.K.), printers: Savill, Edwards and Co. Printers (Chandos Street, Convent Garden, London, England, U.K.)
Book 4
Bestway Cookery
Gift Book (Third Book)
Author: Best Way
Year of Publication: 1928
Publisher: Offices of The "Best Way" Series (Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4, England, U.K.)
Book 7
Good Housekeeping's
Cookery Compendium
Complied By: The Good Housekeeping Institute
Year of Publication: 1958, printed 1959.
Publisher: The National Magazine Co. Ltd. and printed by Letterpress by Sun Printers Ltd. (Watford, England, U.K.)
Book 10
The Best of Cooking
(14th Edition)
Author: Hamlyn
Year of Publication: 1987
Publisher: Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited (Bridge House, London Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, U.K.)
Book 2
High-Class Cookery (11th Edition) for the National Training School Of Cookery
Author: Edith Clarke ('Mrs. Charles Clarke, Principal)
Year of Publication: 1909
Publisher: William Clowes & Sons Limited (23 Cockspur Street, S.W. London, England, U.K.)
Book 5
Cookery Illustrated and Household Management
Author: Elizabeth Craig
Year of Publication: 1936
Publisher: Odhams Press Limited (Long Acre, London W.C.2, England, U.K.)
Book 8
The Sunday Telegraph
Cookery Book
By: Jean Robertson for The Sunday Telegraph, with the chapter on wine by Andrew Robertson
Year of Publication: 1967
Publisher: Collins for The Cookery Book Club (9 Grape Street, London, W.C.2, England, U.K.)
Sold only to members of The Cookery Book Club.
Book 3
A Second Dudley Book of Recipes
Collected and arranged by: Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley
Year of Publication: 1914
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Paternoster Row, London, England, U.K.)
Book 6
Manual of Modern Cookery
7th Edition
Author: Jessie Lindsay & V.H. Mottram
Year of Publication: 1943
Publisher: University of London Press Ltd. (War-Time Address: St. Hugh's School, Bickley, Kent, England, U.K.)
Book 9
The Complete
Colour Cookbook
Editor: Gill Edden
Year of Publication: 1977
Publisher: Octopus Books Limited (59 Grosvenor Street, London, W1, England, U.K.)
Bessie flicking through Book 10 (The Best of Cooking by Hamlyn) in 1987
