Tried favourites cookery book

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Tried Favourites Cookery Book is a substantial household manual by Mrs. E. W. Kirk, presented here in its tenth edition (1909). It belongs to the tradition of comprehensive British and Scottish domestic cookery guides that combine recipes with household management advice. The book moves from soups and stocks through fish, meat, poultry, and game, into vegetables and vegetarian cookery, sauces, eggs and cheese dishes, an enormous range of puddings, cakes, biscuits, preserves, and confections, before closing with sections on invalid cookery, home remedies, and extensive household and laundry management. With over a thousand anchored food records plus household and medicinal entries, it reflects the full scope of a period housewife's responsibilities, not just cooking but cleaning, stain removal, sick nursing, and home doctoring. The recipes range from everyday economical dishes to more elaborate entertaining fare, and the book explicitly serves diverse needs, from family meals to invalid diets to festive baking. Testimonials at the close position it as a trusted, accurate, economical guide aimed at middle-class households. For the modern reader it offers a vivid, practical window into Edwardian domestic life, written in a voice that is instructional, thrifty, and confident, with recipes and remedies sitting side by side as part of one continuous domestic art.

The book opens with handy measures and golden rules for the kitchen before proceeding through a long sequence of food categories: soups (sections 1-2), fish (section 3), beef, mutton, veal, and game meats (sections 4-6), vegetables and vegetarian dishes (sections 6-8), sauces, forcemeats, stuffings, cheese and egg dishes (sections 8-9), an extensive run of puddings, creams, jellies, and sweets (sections 10-14), cakes, biscuits, and small cakes (sections 14-16), invalid cookery and home remedies (sections 16-18), jams, jellies, marmalades, and confections (sections 18-19), and finally household management, laundry work, stain removal, and domestic health advice (sections 20-22), closing with promotional testimonials and advertisements (section 23). Note that sections 12 and 17 are absent from the provided material, so the summarized sequence skips directly from section 11 to 13 and from section 16 to 18. Headings throughout are recipe titles or topic headers rather than formal chapter names, and the book appears to use a running index structure rather than heavy subdivision.