Bangour Collection of Culinary Recipes
Broxburn, A F Steel & Son, 1925. Keay, Mary F (comp). The Bangour Collection of Culinary Recipes Proved & Approved. [FIRST EDITION] A F Steel & Son: Broxburn, [Scotland] 1925. 8vo (180x120mm) qtr bnd brown cloth, tand printed bds, 143,[1]pp.
Second-hand hardcover
KEAY, Mary F (compiler). [Mary Freer née Rutherford (1867-1944)]
The Bangour Collection of Culinary Recipes Proved & Approved.
Broxburn, [Scotland] : A F Steel & Son, June 1925. First edition. Priced 1/9.
Octavo (180x120mm) quarter bound brown cloth, tan printed boards, flush cut edges, 143,[1]pp : π⁴, 1-8⁸, 9⁴. Boards lightly worn and soiled; owner name in pencil to front free endpaper; cloth spine head and tail slightly frayed; top edges faintly dusty; internally fine.
A community cookbook published to raise funds for the Furnishing Fund of the Bangour Memorial Church.
Bangour is a Mid-Lothian lowlands village in Scotland. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, it was home to the Bangour Asylum which became the Bangour War Hospital between 1914 and 1922 and again during World War II. The Memorial Church was established as the first War Memorial Church in the region and the foundation stone was laid in 1924. The author was the wife of the Medical Superintendent Lieutenant Colonel John Keay, (1860-1943) appointed to the hospital in 1904, a role he kept until his death.
In 1907, Mrs Keay compiled The Ecclesmachan Cookery Book, a community cook book issued to raise funds for the enlargement and restoration of the Ecclesmachan Parish Church. Some of the recipes from that book are included here. Other recipes are attributed, with contributors from across Scotland and Northern England. The chapters are: Soups; Fish; Entrees and Meats; Puddings and Sweets; Savouries; Cakes and Scones; Jams, Sweetmeats, &c.; Invalid Cookery; Miscellaneous. The recipes are, as described, economical. There are a number of Scottish recipes including Haggis, Scottish Bacon, and Oatmeal Puddings; there are also a number of Anglo-Indian influenced dishes; together with game dishes. Un-indexed.
Scarce. A lovely copy of an uncommon Scottish community cookery book.
§ OCLC records 2 holdings: National Library of Scotland and NYPL
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