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The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes (1901) by Mrs. W.G. Waters; Various cookbooks (between 1903 and 1934) by Auguste Escoffier; Edmonds Cookery Book (1908) by T.J. Edmonds Ltd; Household Searchlight Recipe Book (1931) by Ida Migliario, Zorada Z. Titus, Harriet W. Allard, and Irene Nunemaker
A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. Cookbooks, which are a collection of recipes, help reflect cultural identities and social changes as well as serve as educational tools.
For example, in a German cooks' vocational school book from the 1980s the basic recipe for such a cake baked in a 26 cm (10") spring form tin is given as four eggs, three egg-weights of butter, four egg-weights of sugar, three egg-weights of flour and one egg-weight of starch. [5]
The foods described in the book are useful for reconstructing the dietary habits of the ancient world around the Mediterranean Basin. [citation needed] But the recipes are geared for the wealthiest classes, and a few contain what were exotic ingredients at that time (e.g., flamingo). A sample recipe from Apicius (8.6.2–3) follows: [5]
The Household Searchlight Recipe Book was one of the most-published cookbooks in the United States. It was in print almost continuously from 1931 until 1954 and sold more than 1 million copies. It was published by Capper Publications of Topeka, Kansas, and reprinted five times between 1977 and 1991 by Stauffer Publications.
The cookery writer Laura Kelley notes that it was one of the first books in English to include a recipe for curry: "To make a currey the India way." The recipe calls for two small chickens to be fried in butter; for ground turmeric, ginger and pepper to be added and the dish to be stewed; and for cream and lemon juice to be added just before ...
This category contains cookbooks of significant influence or popularity, including books that have served as references of record for major national cuisines, popular or influential books and series of books (especially those that have drastically influenced the cooking and eating habits of their intended audience), and the masterworks of prominent chefs and food writers.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Preparing food using heat This article is about the preparation of food specifically via heat. For a general outline, see Outline of food preparation. For varied styles of international food, see Cuisine. Not to be confused with Coking. A man cooking in a restaurant kitchen, Morocco ...