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WISHFUL COOKING, by Emily Lina Mirrlees and Margaret Rosalys Coker; Faber and Faber. English price, 12/6. ERE is a recipe book that does not, mention Mrs. Beeton, but presupposes a larder as lavishly stocked as hers. The aim of the authors is "to record and preserve from a family recipe book of the old style, the best traditions
of English country house cooking. After so many years, of shortages and improvisation, it is very necessary’ to revive the true tradition of -cultivated cookery before it is entirely lost to ‘the new generation." The collection has been
made from manuscript recipe books ranging back over four and five generations; and also from more modern sources as the authors travelled through Europe, America and Africa. Thus one finds an onion soup: from Biarritz, an asparagus rarebit from Australia, mahmoussa (a fry of eggs, cold potatoes and onion) from Turkey, and a curd cake from Sicily. The instructions are clear and sufficient, even for that much neglected and essential creation, plain -white sauce. And the constant appearance of characters such as bay leaf, stick cinnamon, sprig of rosemary, peppercorn and nutmeg, may remind some readers that flavourings need not always come out of bottles or tins, and that parsley is not
the only herb.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 551, 13 January 1950, Page 14
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213NOSTALGIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 551, 13 January 1950, Page 14
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