Author: Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
Title: Bile Bean Cookery Book
Description: Not Stated, C.E. Fulford Ltd. c1906 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce early twentieth century guide to the use of the controversial laxative tonic 'Bile Beans&apos. A very scarce first edition, in the publisher's original illustrated wraps.Dated circa 1906 via the Wellcome Library.Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s, and operating until the 1980s. Among other claims, Bile Beans promised to "disperse unwanted fat" and "purify and enrich the blood", based upon a secret Aboriginal Australian substance. However in a court case it was revealed simply to contain cascara, rhubarb, liquorice and menthol.This work identifies the scenarios in which the tonic should be used, provides testimony of its success, and offers recipes in which it could be included.From the library of Jill Norman, an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and, as the only woman, the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced, and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden, and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends. In the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Front wrap detached but present, with small losses to perimeters. Significant loss to tail of rear wrap. Wraps significantly age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Minor loss to head of first leaf and following leaf. Pages significantly age toned. Fair . Ill.: Not Stated. Fair .
Keywords: bile beans laxative Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness jill norman laxative Not Stated
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Title: Bile Bean Cookery Book
Description: Not Stated, C.E. Fulford Ltd. c1906 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce early twentieth century guide to the use of the controversial laxative tonic 'Bile Beans&apos. A very scarce first edition, in the publisher's original illustrated wraps.Dated circa 1906 via the Wellcome Library.Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s, and operating until the 1980s. Among other claims, Bile Beans promised to "disperse unwanted fat" and "purify and enrich the blood", based upon a secret Aboriginal Australian substance. However in a court case it was revealed simply to contain cascara, rhubarb, liquorice and menthol.This work identifies the scenarios in which the tonic should be used, provides testimony of its success, and offers recipes in which it could be included.From the library of Jill Norman, an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and, as the only woman, the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced, and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden, and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends. In the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Front wrap detached but present, with small losses to perimeters. Significant loss to tail of rear wrap. Wraps significantly age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Minor loss to head of first leaf and following leaf. Pages significantly age toned. Fair . Ill.: Not Stated. Fair .
Keywords: bile beans laxative Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness jill norman laxative Not Stated
Price: GBP 85.00 = appr. US$ 121.38 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 937F22
- Book number: 937F22
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