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Pros & Cons
Pros
The shortbread is wonderful, the lemon cake is very tasty, and i'm hoping to make the tartlets tomorrow. It reminds me of my english great-grandmother & her recipes. Great recipes but definitely not for a novice cook.
A nice stocking stuffer to give at christmas. A treasure for the cookbook collector. The insight into pre-wwi home life is priceless.
Love it. No frills here. You will not be disappointed. Overall a good find.
Also buy the second book published in 1927. A little different than pictured. Great to have a photo of the original and a typed version.
Cons
Basically handwritten recipes that were scanned and then typed. Not secret recipes at all. Just giving a list of ingredients doesn't do it.
This is one of those purchases you wouldn't give to an enemy and you'd feel embarrassed to donate. The actual item is not. If felt really cheaply designed. No part of its design is thoughtful.
Highlights
Quality
A glimpse of those cooks who with love simple ingredients and an eye or taste for consistency bring their daily tasks to future generations
Cakes and desserts and fancy dishes had measurements and were written
This is how your real food used to be made and it taste like it too
Photos of each page need to be taken because i can’t turn the pages they just crumble at the very touch of trying to turn the page
Shipping
Packaging deliver on time and done well
My kids ordered it on may 4th and thats the print date
Packaging/appearance
A nice stocking stuffer to give at christmas
The packaging was great against foul weather book came on a quite snot day but the flimsiness of the packaging enabled my so ca... Read More
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- This product had a total of 2,136 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 11 2024.
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The recipes were rewritten so it was easy to read
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Its not what i thought it was but worked out as a nice gift
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also back then ladies rarely wrote their everyday menu recipes down because you didnt measure you cooked from memory for those foods
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My grandmother has been dead 20 years and was 100 when she died
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When she was in her 80s she asked me to make cream puffs by her old recipe and egg custard pie
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There were so many terms and measurements that i have never heard of
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Read the full book before trying the recipes
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This is how your real food used to be made and it taste like it too
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