Woman Cookery Book The Basic Principles of Cookery Explained for the Beginner with Kitchen Tested Recipes

Probably circa 1950. 256pp. Red leather-look cloth covered boards with faded gold ornament. Colour frontispiece of lobster salad and 6 other colour illustrations, plus b + w illustrations photographs. A little loss to the edge of the flyleaf, an edge removed to the half title, some child scrawl to the last page of the Index, otherwise internally clean. Compiled by the cookery editress of Woman magazine, the basic princples of cookery are explained, with many recipes for meat and fish, pastry, sauces. baking, preserving etc. Comes with two extra pages of recipes, from another book.