About the Book

Charlotte Clark, Lady Clark of Tillypronie, was the wife of a British diplomat and one of the notable hostesses of her age. Over decades she collected recipes in manuscript — from her own cooks, from friends, from the embassies and great houses she knew — noting beside each one where it came from.

She never intended to publish. The collection was edited after her death by Catherine Frere and appeared in 1909, and its charm is exactly that it was private: the notes are frank, the attributions personal, and the standard is that of a household that could command the best.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page, one recipe to a 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.