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The Downstairs Cookbook: Recipes From A 1920s Household Cook [Hardcover]

Margaret Powell (Author)
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Publication Date: 11 Oct 2012
A complete 1920s cookbook from Margaret Powell

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The Downstairs Cookbook: Recipes From A 1920s Household Cook + Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid + Climbing the Stairs: From kitchen maid to cook; the heartwarming memoir of a life in service
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (11 Oct 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0230767834
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230767836
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 300,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Book Description

The Downstairs Cookbook offers genuine 1920s recipes from bestselling author Margaret Powell, the house maid and cook who shared tales from her years of service in Below Stairs and inspired the original Upstairs Downstairs TV series. Now in this cookery book she offers a collection of sweet and 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 and angels on horseback as well as more adventurous offerings such as lobster soufflé and veal quenelles. With separate chapters on pastry and preserves, this is Margaret Powell’s complete cook’s manual for a 1920s household.

About the Author

Margaret Powell was born in 1907 in Hove. Aged fifteen, she went into service as a kitchen maid, eventually progressing to the position of cook. In 1968 the first volume of her memoirs, Below Stairs, was published to instant success. She died in 1984.

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5.0 out of 5 stars amusing and informative, much better than many cookbooks by TV star chefs of today 5 Dec 2012
By lehman
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The book is written in an amusing, unpretensious style, and her stories of what in turn the older generation of cooks told her is especially interesting, like cooking a swan. Some of the recipes stand the test of time, und they show where today's hot chefs get their "new" ideas from- they aren't actually that new.
Can recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A bit of history with interesting recipes 6 Feb 2013
By A. Wakely
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Bought a copy for boyfriend for Xmas and then had to buy another for myself. Very informative with an insight into the life of a 1920's cook for each chapter then easy to follow recipes to cook the way they did back in the day.
Can recommend the Chocolate Ice Cream. Made it several times now, Very easy and moreish!
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5.0 out of 5 stars the downstairs cookbook 24 Jan 2013
By wrinkly
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I bought it as a christmas present for a friend whos mother had been a cook in a big house at that time, she said she loved it.
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