cookery book
Britishnoun
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In the last recession I did a cookery book called "Save with Jamie" and "Money Saving Meals."
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2023
In the 1723 cookery book “The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary,” the author John Nott shares a recipe for chicken breasts, in which the skins get lifted and stuffed with grated bacon, anchovies and herbs.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2021
In the 1675 cookery book The Queen-like Closet, author Hannah Woolley describes a suet pastry case, filled with butter, boiled in a pudding cloth and served with fruit.
From BBC • May 19, 2018
Again, I thought I’d used the cookery book writer’s iconic status as a way of understanding how a hugely expansionist Victorian Britain needed to lodge a particular reading of domesticity at its very heart.
From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2016
A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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