{"id":2403,"date":"2021-09-21T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:27:36","slug":"1911-cookbook-might-be-one-of-the-first-family-cookbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2021\/09\/1911-cookbook-might-be-one-of-the-first-family-cookbooks.html","title":{"rendered":"1911 Cookbook Might Be One Of The First Family Cookbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family Cookbooks have been around for\u00a0 long time. Sometimes they are the work of an individual compiling their recipes, other times they are the join effort of a community.<\/p>\n

Recently, a cookbook called ‘250 Tried Recipes for Everyday Use’ features numerous recipes supplied by housewives around the UK back in 1911, and was discovered in a kitchen of a property that had been left unused since the 1950s in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The fascinating publication provides an insight into the basic ingredients and cooking methods used at the time and all instructions are boiled down to one paragraph.<\/p>\n

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It also includes a cheeky recipe on how best to ‘cook a husband’ as too many ‘are utterly spoiled by mismanagement’.\u00a0Comical descriptions include ‘keeping them in hot water’, ‘roasting them’ or keeping them ‘in a stew with irritating ways and words.’\u00a0The housewife also suggests ‘add a little sugar in the form of what confectioners call kisses’ and that ‘a little spice improves them’.<\/p>\n

Read an article on the cookbook that appeared on the UK’s Daily Mail’s website, including additional recipes and pages from the historic cookbook.<\/a><\/p>\n

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