Old recipe books

[Nicos]

I found this glossary of terms from the 1700's and before, and thought it might come in handy to understand any old fashioned recipes..

Any 'Call My Bluff' fans could find it helpful too!!!

www.kal69.dial.pipex.com/shop/pages/glossa.htm

[Polly Fouracre]

Very interesting.I love old cookery books-and a lot of the new ones too.

[muckdiva]

Very interesting.I love old cookery books-and a lot of the new ones too.

Me too PF. My mum had one called 'The Reluctant Cook' sooo hilarious, wish I could find it again, don't know what happened to it.

[TonyF]

Cookery books - apart from gardening and work books - my big weakness. I'm a trustee of an international research library and in the rare books collection we have a 17th century French cookery book with some wonderful recipes, though I wouldn't want to have to cook the high fat, high cholestorol recipes in it - though I may eventually republish the whole thing as a private publishing project.

[Nicos]

Oh come on Tony ....some of us only pretend to be on diets!!!!

[skegblade]

Muckdiva, have you tried googling for the book title?

[shirley]

I love the old recipe books. It gives us a good insight into our social history. I only have some from the 60's but they are amusing.

[muckdiva]

Muckdiva, have you tried googling for the book title?

I have had a look, but the ones titled The Reluctant Cook seem to be from the 1980s or so, and the one I'm thinking must have been written in the 1930s judging by the 'jeeves and wooster' type illustrations.