Australian Home Cookery

Ideal Home Library

850 tested recipes and practical hints on Marketing, Invalid Cookery, preserves, Pickles, Beverages, Parties, Carving, Table Arrangement, Preparing Menus and Culinary Terms

Ideal Home Library, printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, c1940s, photographic frontispiece, illustrated title page, black and white photographic plates, lightly illustrated with line drawings, hardcover with embossed boards paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, small tears to top and bottom of spine, age toned pages, foxing, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Here is a book to meet the needs of the Australian housewife.  Its simple, straightforward recipes for staple dishes will solve the problems of the woman of limited experience.  They will lead her to those recipes which lure the housewife from the cooking rut.  The thrifty woman will appreciate the practical guidance in the preparation of attractive dishes from left-over foodstuffs.
In preparation of this series of Australian Home Reference books, no expense or effort has been spared in selecting the most useful type of reference for the housewife’s guidance.  Every recipe has been tested under Australian conditions.”