More Every-Day Dishes

More Every-Day Dishes was edited by Elizabeth Josephine Craig, MBE, FRSA (16 February 1883 – 7 June 1980) who was a Scottish journalist, home economist and a notable author on cookery.  Craig started to cook when she was six years old and began collecting recipes from age 12. She declared that the only formal training she had in cookery was a “three months course in Dundee”.

She began publishing cookery books after the end of World War I and proceeded through World War II and into the 1980s. She began writing in times when food was scarce and rationing was heavily relied upon, and her career ended when the majority of households had a refrigerator and an opportunity to access a much wider variety of foods: this can be observed in her writing as more diverse dishes appear in her later books.

Her contribution to English culinary literature comprises a very large corpus of traditional British recipes, although not only this: included are also a considerable collection of recipes from other countries which she liked to collect during visits abroad.

The Golden Syrup featured in the advertising within this booklet is iconic.  The green and gold tins feature the world’s oldest branding. Originally made in small quantities and sold in wooden casks to employees and locals, as demand grew, casks were swapped for large dispensers found on the shelves of grocery stores. Today, more than a million of these same tins leave Plaistow each month. https://www.tateandlyle.com/about-us/history

A reasonably clean 2nd edition copy with a small rip on the spine, some colour plates, along with a number of black and white pictures published by Tate & Lyle Ltd. https://hungrytraveller.com.au/3d-flip-book/more-everyday-cookery/