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Grandma's Little Black Book of Recipes - From 1910 by Les Dale [Dale, Les] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Grandma's Little Black Book of Recipes - From 1910 about?

This little black book was discovered in an attic in 2015. The typed recipes and instructions are a direct translation of the handwriting seen in the photographs on each page. To preserve its authenticity, no extra instructions have been added. The cover is a photograph of the actual book, (with title added.) Bring your tablet into the rural English kitchen of 1910. Relive the tastes and smells of an age where there were no microwave ovens or digital scales. Back then, cooking was done on a Yorkshire Range. This is not a book for the complete novice. You won't find any "preheat the oven to 200° " instructions. Their skills were not only in baking, but also maintaining the oven at a constant temperature, remember the heat came from the coal and wood, no thermostatic controls or glass fronted oven in doors existed back then. Grandma would feel the oven door knob to gauge the heat of the oven. However, if you can bake scones and know by looking at things when they are "done," you will enjoy experimenting as they did, adapting the recipes to your own taste. Since Grandma knew how to bake she didn’t include step-by-step instructions in each recipe because she knew what to do so no repet

Who reads Grandma's Little Black Book of Recipes - From 1910?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Les Dale [Dale, Les]
Publisher
Les Dale
Published
2015
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Cooking