1939 Cookery Book of Selected Recipes
April 6th 2012 08:15
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A cooking liftout
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from the Australian Women's Weekly
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I scored in a very vintage recipe kind-of-way recently, when a good friend gave me a whole bundle of old cook books and recipes dating from as far back as 1929.
One of them was the Cookery Book of Selected Recipes, a liftout from the Australian Women's Weekly in 1939.
It's 28 pages of pre-war cooking wisdom with the 'cream of half a million recipes' that were entered in a thousand pound recipe competition by the famous magazine.
'You will ifnd that every phase of cooking is represented in it, and that the recipes will provide you with sufficient material to keep your menus varied for years', it starts out.
Recipes are included for Cherry Cake, Spice Cake, Angel Food Cake and Swiss Tart.
There is a section with a complete seven day plan of menus for the family. For example - dinner on Saturday is Grilled Steak with Cheese and Horseradish sauce, French Beans and for dessert Butterscotch Tart and Custard Biscuits and coffee.
There are recipes for soup, fish, vegetables, cheese, beef and preserves.
There is even a section on how to hold a dinner party with the wisdom of British authority on social procedure, Mrs Massey Lyon.
'In these days of less formal entertaining anyone who is attractive and interesting can entertain successfully....But even if she has servants the hostess must be able to attend to every detail.'
The whole liftout is a glimpse into the kitchens and social eating habits of a pre-war Australia.
The photos are in black and white and even the advertisements are interesting. It is a reflection of a country that has struggled through a Depression and about to enter into a world war
The 1939 liftout of recipes given to me by a friend.
I scored in a very vintage recipe kind-of-way recently, when a good friend gave me a whole bundle of old cook books and recipes dating from as far back as 1929.
One of them was the Cookery Book of Selected Recipes, a liftout from the Australian Women's Weekly in 1939.
It's 28 pages of pre-war cooking wisdom with the 'cream of half a million recipes' that were entered in a thousand pound recipe competition by the famous magazine.
'You will ifnd that every phase of cooking is represented in it, and that the recipes will provide you with sufficient material to keep your menus varied for years', it starts out.
Recipes are included for Cherry Cake, Spice Cake, Angel Food Cake and Swiss Tart.
There is a section with a complete seven day plan of menus for the family. For example - dinner on Saturday is Grilled Steak with Cheese and Horseradish sauce, French Beans and for dessert Butterscotch Tart and Custard Biscuits and coffee.
There are recipes for soup, fish, vegetables, cheese, beef and preserves.
Inside the liftout
There is even a section on how to hold a dinner party with the wisdom of British authority on social procedure, Mrs Massey Lyon.
'In these days of less formal entertaining anyone who is attractive and interesting can entertain successfully....But even if she has servants the hostess must be able to attend to every detail.'
The whole liftout is a glimpse into the kitchens and social eating habits of a pre-war Australia.
The photos are in black and white and even the advertisements are interesting. It is a reflection of a country that has struggled through a Depression and about to enter into a world war
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