Author: BOWLES, HILDA G. (COMPILER)
Title: Simple Tried Recipes & Household Hints in Constant Use - for Victory
Description: India: Self-Published, 1944. First Edition. Leather. A compilation of recipes "kindly given me by past and present residents in the planting district of the High Range of Travancore, including some of the Indian Ladies." - p. [2]. Undated but various hints strongly suggest a printing date circa WWII. Published as a fundraiser for the "War Fund". Includes ads for businesses in Madras, Bangalore, and Cochin. Printed at Pankajam Press, Fine Art Printers, Bodinayakanur. VII (ads), [1], [3]-216, VII (ads) p. All text in English. Full leather binding lacks backstrip. Prior owner's handwritten name, H.H. Holden, dated 1944 in Bangalore, upon front free endpaper. Two-inch opening to top of front hinge. Page 151 loose but present. Lacking pages 153-156. Above-average wear. An exceedingly uncommon example of this cookbook apparently prepared mostly by and for British residents in the vicinity of Travancore, India, shortly before the end of British colonial rule.; 12mo. Poor .

Keywords: Asia Cookbooks