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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1961Vol. XXXII, No. 4

Old Cooking

p. 97 · Read in the full issue

[?]ew Facts On Old Cooking

> knew that many dishes now led as American were once h and went off to the New with the early pioneers? The include Pumpkin Pie, Chiffon sveet Waffles, and Waldorf Salad, f which were traditional to id many hundreds of years ago. is and Robertson in October led a fascinating recipe book ;len Cox, “Traditional English ig”, which gives all the old 5, but tested for modern jhs. t makes the book so fascinating introductions which the author to each recipe. Readers will that “most people think Friar’s t is a breakfast dish but ihire people know better”, and ; was not until 1830 that English accepted tomatoes as being although they had been intro as far back as 1554; that ice first came to England in the 13th y; and that although institutions, , provinces and even mountains ieen named after Queen Victoria is only one recipe, “Victoria ich”.

Utional English Cooking,

led by Angus and Robertson.