The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie

A great Victorian hostess's private recipe collection, gathered from the cooks, ambassadors and country houses of a lifetime — never meant for publication, and published after her death exactly as she kept it, attributions and all.

The Receipts

8 recipes in this part of The Cookery Book of Lady Clark.

Copyright Introduction Geraldene Holt

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Isbn 1 870962 10 9

Typeset in Goudy Old Style 10pt by York Wordprocessing Bureau Ltd, Wetherby Printed in England on wood-free paper by Woolnough Bookbinding…

Cheese Dishes

199 INVALID COOKERY. .383 Domestic Recipes, 387 Appendix, 394 Index, 399

Editor's Note

The order of the recipe sections has been altered from the original edition of 1909, which was strictly alphabetical, to the more logical…

Acknowledgements

The Publisher wishes to thank Mrs. Annie Tippetts who lent the original edition, and the Hon. Philip Astor who lent the photograph of…

Sources of Illustrations

Dinner and Rolling Pastry, from Consult Me 1866; Stag, from The Home Visitor 1893, a Trade Journal; Goose, Milkmaid, Cups and Saucers, from…

Introduction (Most keen cooks collect)

Most keen cooks collect recipes - their own or other people's - sometimes scribbled on a scrap of paper or torn from a newspaper or…

Introduction (Appreciation of historical)

appreciation of historical continuity in food that sustains a country's cultural identity and respect for gastronomy. So how fortunate we…

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