Kathleen Le Riche — Cooking from Scratch

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition of Kathleen Le Riche"s beginner-friendly primer on the fundamentals of cooking from scratch. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This volume is a very scarce first edition of this work.This volume serves as a practical, beginner-friendly cookbook that guides the reader into confident home cooking from scratch. She provides instruction on planning, equipment, hygiene, pressure cooking, refrigeration, and menus with guidance on cooking with vegetables, flour, milk, meat, and other preserves. Kathleen Le Riche was a staple author of British home cookbooks of the 1950s, known for Cooking Alone (1954) and Cooking for a Party. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to extremities and spine. The odd slight handling mark. Spot of damp staining to upper left corner of rear board. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper "Kathleen Holmes to you, 5th September 1938." Bookplate from "matrin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpaper. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .