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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1961Vol. XXXII, No. 1

[?]wo Recipe Hooks

pp. 93-95 · Read in the full issue

Recommended

ECIPE books of typically Islands dishes are not hard to come by he Islands. Most territories seem jave their own special dishes re kd for posterity in books of standards of production, "y sponsored by a local women’s taxation or by some local house > interested in preserving the best the dishes for those willing to a few shillings. Most of the Q ds books of this type that we e seen are very good. u t for those Islanders who are rested in owning a good cookery * ot honest-to-goodness standard Pes of the kind that have been pr by English-speaking people for stations we recommend A (Over)

reasury of Good Recipes, by Wini ed Savage.

The same Sydney publisher, ngus and Robertson, has also pub shed recently, almost as a com mion volume, Chinese Cookery, p Ella-Mei Wong.

A Treasury of Good Recipes gives >u all you want to know about the sparing of food, the planning of eals, and how to cook everything am casseroles to hamburgers, from nelettes to chowders, from steamed iddings to frozen desserts, from jit cake to the bottling of sauces id fruits. It is a thoroughly good [-round book for any Islands istess looking for a solid reference ok of plain cooking. Mrs. Savage a former supervisor of Cookery hools for the NSW Department of lucation.

Ella-Mei Wong’s Chinese Cookery le author regularly demonstrates r skills on a Sydney TV station) mages to present all the most used dnese recipes clearly and simply, d Islands bachelors and grass dowers will find it a handy stand when they get sick of eating what ; house-help brings in. Both books ) excellent productions, with wash le covers.

A Treasury Op Good Recipes.

I; Chinese Cookery, 17/6. Both

dished by Angus and Robertson.)