Cooking for Two

A handbook for two at table, 1909 — Janet MacKenzie Hill scales the whole art of cookery down to the newlywed kitchen.

About the Book

1909Published
Janet MacKenzie HillAuthor
20Chapters
128Pages on this site

Janet MacKenzie Hill wrote Cooking for Two (c.1909) for young housekeepers: the science of food first, then marketing, then recipes proportioned for a household of two. Built from professionally keyed text; the original pages were photographed in colour from the Internet Archive copy and will be linked page by page.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1909 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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