The Daily Mail Cookery Book; The Practical Daily Menu

Two uncommon post-war cookery books from Constance Peel and Christina B. Peacock. This delightful set includes the fourth edition of The "Daily Mail" Cookery Book and the first edition of The Practical Daily Menu.In the original cloth bindings.Both of these works touch on the conditions leftover from the war time, particularly with using ingredients with more care and an economic mind.'The Practical Daily Menu' offers recipes for 365 breakfasts, 365 dinners and 365 suppers, including hot pot, toad in a hole, Naples pudding, fish custard and stuffed onions.'The Daily Mail Cookery Book' prefaces its recipes with advice on equipment, cleaning utensils and how to keep meals and re-heat dishes. Recipes are of similar taste, including mince, mock duck, lentil patties, curried rice and angel cake, among many others.With twenty-two pages of advertisements to the rear of 'Daily Mail' and four pages of advertisements to the rear of 'Practical Daily Menu'. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. With more notable rubbing and bumping to the extremities of 'Daily Menu', and fading to the spine. Marks to the boards of both. Front hinge to 'Daily Menu' is starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. With a few scattered spots to 'Daily Menu' and only the very odd spot to 'Daily Mail'. Good. …