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The Downstairs Cookbook Author: Margaret Powell

ISBN: 9780230767836 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 332 Published: 11 October 2012 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 20.6 x 13.9 x 2.9 Description: A complete 1920s cookbook from Margaret Powell The Downstairs Cookbook offers genuine 1920s recipes from best selling author Margaret Powell, the house maid and cook who shared tales from her years of service in Below Stairs and inspired the original 'Upstairs Downstairs' TV series.

Now in this cookery book she offers a collection of sweet and savoury courses that the servants regularly prepared for their masters upstairs, accompanied throughout by her heart warming anecdotes from life in service.

The recipes include retro classics such as kedgeree, jugged hare and angels on horseback as well as more adventurous offerings such as lobster soufflé and veal quenelles. With separate chapters on pastry and preserves, this is Margaret Powell's complete cook's manual for a 1920s household.

About the Author

Margaret Powell was born in 1907 in Hove. Aged fifteen, she went into service as a kitchen maid, eventually progressing to the position of cook. In 1968 the first volume of her memoirs, Below Stairs , was published t...

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