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I also have a cookbook similar to the one Andysmum mentions ..........

.......... we moved into a "new-to-us" house in 1951, and the Cannon Cookbook was left with the relatively new gas stove.

I had my father send it to me when I moved into a flat in Liverpool in 1963 (Mum had died by then), then used it when I had a flat near Chester in 1966/67.

Finally, it came over here with us ............. and we both still use it!


The first edition had come out in 1932, this one is the 11th edition, 1949


I wouldn't be without it!


Nor be without the cookbooks I bought around 1963 ........... paperback 500 Recipes ........3 of them by Marguerite Patten.

Then there is the Cheshire Cook Book, put out by the Cheshire Women's Institute, 5th edition 1964.


All have good recipes


I've collected cookbooks for over 40 years ............... buying a cookbook of the region or town has always been one of my major souvenirs of trips.

Plus there are the books that I've bought because of a special interest ............... one pot meals, casseroles, dairy-free, and many "jams, jellies and preserves"


I still go back to the older books ......... even for "jams and jellies"



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I would ask at your local museum, many have a section for domestic exhibits over the years.

1954 I was born in that year.
Sharron I had a Marguerite Patten cook book bough for me when we got married 34 years ago and I love it. I still also use the Bero Book

my Mum never had a cookery book or a weighing scales and she was a fantastic cook

I have a cookery book, published in the 1930's, which was written to coincide with the invention of the Regulo for gas ovens, to teach people how to use it.

It has lots of recipes which you no longer see in modern cookbooks but were commonplace when I was growing up.

We have a local history museum near to where I live, they are always very appreciative of any books like this.

There is the Folk Museum in Gloucester as well. Schools go there a lot. Probably is of historical interest as it is just post war, post rationing.

It is younger than me but I wouldn't hold that against it.

It is the sort of cookery book I use all the time. Proper food, basic ingredients.

Like the Marguerite Patten books.

They were all written at a time when people were just naturally careful because they and their parents always had been.

It's the same age as me then :-D

or a local school for domestic science - if there is still such a subject

There is a small museum in Tewkesbury just thought the book might be of some historical interest

You could try your local museums if they have domestic items on display.

Today clearing out cupboards of my late f-I-l I found a cookbook published in 1954 which mentions mock cream and other mock things. Not sure what to do with it, if I kept it, it would just sit on a shelf but who would be interested in it; any ideas