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Details: The Downstairs Cookbook offers genuine 1920s recipes from bestselling author Margaret Powell, the house maid & cook who shared tales from her years of service in Below Stairs & inspired the original Upstairs Downstairs TV series. Now in this cookery book she offers a collection of sweet & savoury courses that the servants regularly prepared for their masters upstairs, accompanied throughout by her heartwarming anecdotes from life in service. The recipes include retro classics such as kedgeree, jugged hare & angels on horseback as well as more adventurous offerings such as lobster souffl? & veal quenelles. With separate chapters on pastry & preserves, this is Margaret Powells complete cooks manual for a 1920s household. Ideal for: Anyone with a passion for cooking & interested in trying some old ways of cooking. informative with an insight into the life of a 1920's cook. This hardback book has 322 pages & measures: 20.4 x 13.5 x 2.7cm

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