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The British Cookbook: authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

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I also loved the Horseradish Sauce recipe, because one can’t have a proper Sunday lunch without a piece of roast beef and horseradish sauce alongside. This book also provides, in one volume, delicious detail about the way meals were eaten,manners, customs, mealtimes, the ever changing time for diner throughout the century and what that said about your status, etc. Ben has unearthed the dishes steeped in history: junket, haggis, and others which were originally created abroad and then adapted to local tastes and adopted into the canon of British cooking.

Besides offering a fascinating read, and a set of delicious recipes, this book demystifies British cuisine, showing everyone how diverse and exciting this cuisine can be. Apparently they did: “It is thus hardly surprising to find so much negative comment on English food from foreign travellers…. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.As the title page is often the only point at which something that might be described as ‘philosophy’ or theory enters into the text of a household manual, it will be admitted that such a gathering will have great utility.

The importance of such manuscripts is that they present a foil to printed texts, forcing on such texts a new marketplace rhetoric bent on inspiring readers to try new, ostensibly standard recipes in place of local standbys. How did authors compete with the discourse of domestic manuscripts, which assured readers of a local authority for virtually every recipe? After a long, hot afternoon Jon suggested we stop into the National Trust Café, I was not enthusiastic, thinking of lukewarm pizza and hotdogs that had sat in a warmer all day as you would find at home.

In her honour, Grub Street is reissuing a new edition of the first book we published by Marguerite back in 1999, her comprehensive Century of British Cooking. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I love a good cookery book, and enjoy nothing more than settling down with a cup of tea to leaf through any new cookery book that comes my way.

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