chapter 1: cooks - mistresses and imaginations

These are some old cook books I've accumulated. Some are a bit old and some are very very old. One even inspired a film I'm glad I've never seen. Luckily cookbooks seem to still be beautiful - Rose Prince, Stephan Reynaud not to mention lots of others but they're on amazon. These, however, are not:

I love this book because it's more a collection of instructions for one's cook rather than practical advice. It is though for small households - how very aspirational.

Advice on Shooting Lunches:

Bananas fried in bacon fat: good food.

Random postcard found in the book:

Supplementary recipe taped in:

The one and only: this one from 1909 but missing its colour plates.

Found inside: Recipes from a newspaper and a leaflet on oatmeal from Cooks Tunbridge Wells

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Morocco

my cousins wedding: the church

back from this years first big ride