SAUCE AND SAGE: A COOKERY BOOK THAT IS DIFFERENT
Book Details + Condition: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd (London and New York). First Edition, 1933. Hardcover. 238 pages with Index. Scarce. Author Eva Willis provides a comprehensive and distinct early 20th-century cookbook for housewives, with an introductory analysis of "good" and "bad" cooking for homemakers, in the chapter "Angels' Food versus Devils' Food". Chapters and topics detailing "wholesome" recipes for women include:
- Angels' Food Versus Devils'
- We Really Commence-Boiling; Grilling; Roasting & Baking; Frying; Cooking of Vegetables
- Some Vegetable Dishes You Will Enjoy
- When Eggs are Cheap and Plentiful
- Curries You Can Enjoy
- Indian Sweets and Sweetmeats
- Feeding the Invalid
- Fruit and Fruit Dishes
- Meat and Meat Dishes
- Poultry and Game
- Fish and Fish Dishes
- Cake-Making-Cakes and Buns
- Drinks and Restoratives-Ices
- Puddings, Pies, and Sweet Sauces
- Hints on Jam-Making, Salad-Making, and Pickling-Savory Sauces
- And much more.
A scarce cookbook with firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; heavy wear to boards, with discoloration and rubbing present; wear to spine, with darkening and chipped ends/headbands; fraying and wear to spine hinge; toning to interior, with heavier toning to endpapers; inked notation to ffep, with stamp to half-title page; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
