Glenfield College Home & School Association

Maori Cookbook

Auckland, NZ Consolidated Press, [1977].
Second-hand softcover

Glenfield College Home & School Association. Maori Cookbook. [FIRST EDITION] NZ Consolidated Press: Auckland, [1977]. 8vo (205x140mm) illust stiff card wrappers, stapled, flushcut edges, 120pp. Near Fine. wrappers faintly agetoned

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GLENFIELD COLLEGE HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

Maori Cookbook

Auckland : New Zealand Consolidated Press, Auckland, undated [1977]¹. First edition.  

Octavo (205x140mm) two colour illustrated and printed stiff card wrappers, stapled, flushcut edges, 120pp. Wrappers very faintly agetoned and scuffed; internally crisp and fine.

¶   Established in 1969. Glenfield College is a state, co-educational secondary school on Auckland's North Shore.  Produced as a fund raising community cookbook by the school's community association,  the Maori Cookbook contains approximately 350 recipes from the Maori, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Hawaii, Fiji and Pitcairn Island.  The recipes are written in the ingredient/method format, with individual chapters for each country.  More than half of the recipes are Maori.

The first thirteen pages provide detailed instructions for constructing and cooking with a 'hangi' a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven called an umu.  Recipes follow for Maori bread; indigenous grains, vegetables, berries and plants, mutton birds; swamp hen, eels, and shellfish including paua.  In the remaining chapters, the mostly traditional islander recipes using indigenous ingredients sit along side various recipes influenced by migration and colonisation; particularly the recipes for sweets.  These include recipes for paw paw, guava, coconut, pineapple, prickly pear, kumara, whitebait, manioc, turtle, dogfish or shark, crab, cabbage tree, together with some curries and dishes of Chinese origin.  Most recipes serve four.

Uncommon An excellent and well explained compendium of traditional and everyday recipes from the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the Pacific.

§  Well held institutionally in New Zealand. OCLC records only one holding in Australia, SLNSW; only eight holdings in the USA and one holding in the UK, Oxford Brooks.

¹  Recorded by the National Library of New Zealand as published in 1977.  The table of simple metrication  to the front wrapper verso is consistent with New Zealand finalishing its conversion to metric in 1976.

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