Early Colonial Indian cookbooks. "Ketab." Indian Dishes for English Tables. Pictorial tan cloth. Second Edition. (Near fine). London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. Core, Mary Kennedy. Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan. Mustard cloth. First Edition. (Insect damage to cloth; period inscription to front free endpaper, else very good). N.P.: Abingdon Press, [1917]. Bartley, Mrs. J. Indian Cookery General for Young House-Keepers by an Anglo-Indian. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Seventh Edition, Revised. (Dampstaining to covers and interiod pages, thus good only). Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1935. Peel, Cecilia. Indian Curries, Soups and Sandwiches: A Complete Guide for European Housekeepers. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. First Edition. (Contemporaneous notes in pencil & ink to endpapers and margins, else very good). London: W. Thacker & Co., 1930. A group of four Raj-era Indian cookbooks by ex-pats, with Indian recipes spicing up duller English fare. Peel's book contains an entire chapter describing Indian curries; Mrs. Bartley's contains instructions for preparing cow's heart, poaching egg curry, bread with plantain yeast, etc. The remain two also contain a plethora of Indian recipes, as well as instructions for the servants, and more, which paint a picture of life in India at the time.
Early Colonial Indian cookbooks. "Ketab." Indian Dishes for English Tables. Pictorial tan cloth. Second Edition. (Near fine). London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. Core, Mary Kennedy. Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan. Mustard cloth. First Edition. (Insect damage to cloth; period inscription to front free endpaper, else very good). N.P.: Abingdon Press, [1917]. Bartley, Mrs. J. Indian Cookery General for Young House-Keepers by an Anglo-Indian. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Seventh Edition, Revised. (Dampstaining to covers and interiod pages, thus good only). Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1935. Peel, Cecilia. Indian Curries, Soups and Sandwiches: A Complete Guide for European Housekeepers. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. First Edition. (Contemporaneous notes in pencil & ink to endpapers and margins, else very good). London: W. Thacker & Co., 1930. A group of four Raj-era Indian cookbooks by ex-pats, with Indian recipes spicing up duller English fare. Peel's book contains an entire chapter describing Indian curries; Mrs. Bartley's contains instructions for preparing cow's heart, poaching egg curry, bread with plantain yeast, etc. The remain two also contain a plethora of Indian recipes, as well as instructions for the servants, and more, which paint a picture of life in India at the time.
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