Anonymous — The High Clerc Cookery Book

Madras, Madras Publishing House, 1933 . Cloth. The fourth edition of this very scarce cookery booked aimed at missionaries and their families living in India. The fourth edition of this very scarce work, which was first published in 1924.'Sold by the Principal, School of Missionaries Children, Kodaikanal, Madras State&apos.This fourth edition of the work is the first to include the section 'Indian Dishes', which includes recipes for chapatis, perugu garlu, dal samber, egg curry, mulligatawny soup, and brain omelet. With further sections on preserves, pickles and sandwiches.Offering insight into the diets of English missionaries in Madras in the twentieth century. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor losses of paper to board perimeters. head of rear joint starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .