... Housewives will chuckle and learn. IN the age in which she lived Maria Edgeworth, strictly speaking, should have stuck to the kitchen, too. But she didn't. She wrote Castle Rackrent and shared the honour of pioneering the novel of manners with Jane Austen ...

... Sir Would you be so kind to keep in your ice, but in dry angle, my yeast? There are ten (10) grams. Rinds of fruit from the kitchen would pleasure my parrots if not else disposed. Please counsel all that my man parrot, who has the yellow headtop, is angry ...

... the 32 jewels and relics ot the executed Emperor Maximilian, some of which she reclaimed from Federal pawnshop and thieves' kitchen. ANOTHER attractive autobiography, -about her girlhood in Finland, is Martha Hedman House's Mathias and Mathilda (Chapman ...

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... can be made from ingredients available here are Theodora FitzGibbon's chief concern in Cosmopolitan Cookery In An English Kitchen(Verschoyle, 10s.). Robin Howe has raked all Germany for the best and most unusual recipes in German Cooking (Deutsch, 10s ...

... illustrated. RICHARD TATTERSALL, eighteenth- l century Lancashire lad of yeoman stock, was crazy about horses. Scolded out of the kitchens, he'd go to the stable yards, and at fourteen bought a horse for himself a nag pulling a besom cart hid him in a disused ...