Modern Practical Cookery

February menu – halibut in cheese sauce

Food by LoisFebruary 11, 2019February 2, 2021

A dinner for six in February

Food by LoisFebruary 10, 2019February 2, 2021

To serve salad (… and ninety years ago British home cooks were using mixed leaves, garlic and olive oil!)

Food by LoisJanuary 21, 2019January 16, 2019

Winter salad

Food by LoisJanuary 20, 2019January 16, 2019

Turban cups

Food by LoisJanuary 19, 2019January 14, 2019

Beautifully appointed Sole Maître d’Hôtel

Food by LoisJanuary 18, 2019January 20, 2021

Beautifully appointed

Food by LoisJanuary 14, 2019January 14, 2019

Beef olives on the November menu

Food by LoisNovember 20, 2018October 28, 2018

Food by LoisNovember 19, 2018November 19, 2018

Michaelmas daisies and bronze chrysanthemums

One of my favourite old cookery books, which is anonymous so may well have been a collection of recipes amalgamated by the publishers from a number of their publications is Modern Practical Cookery. which first appeared in 1934. Towards the end of the book of over seven hundred pages is a section on suggested monthly […]

Autumn soup

Food by LoisOctober 14, 2018