Mrs A B Marshall’s Cookery Book

Mrs A B Marshall's Cookery Book is written by Agnes Bertha Marshall (née Smith; 24 August 1855 – 29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef. An unusually prominent businesswoman for her time, Marshall was particularly known for her work on ice cream and other frozen desserts, which in Victorian England earned her the moniker "Queen of Ices". Marshall popularised ice cream in England and elsewhere at a time when it was still a novelty and is often regarded as the inventor of the modern ice cream cone. Through her work, Marshall may be largely responsible for both the look and popularity of ice cream today.

It is unknown when and where Marshall first learned to cook; scant later writings allude to having learnt from chefs in England, France and Austria. She began her career in 1883 through the founding of the Marshall's School of Cookery, which taught high-end English and French cuisine and grew to be a renowned culinary school. Marshall wrote four well-received cookbooks, two of which were devoted to ice cream and other desserts.

Together with her husband Alfred, Marshall operated a variety of different businesses. From 1886 onwards she published her own magazine, The Table, which included weekly recipes and at times articles written by Marshall on various topics, both serious and frivolous. Marshall had an intense interest in technology; she was an early adopter of new technologies, frequently wrote about her own predictions of the future, and invented several new appliances.

Though she was one of the most celebrated cooks of her time and one of the foremost cookery writers of the Victorian age, Marshall rapidly faded into obscurity after her death and was largely forgotten until she once more achieved renown in the late twentieth century. Technology invented or conceptualised by Marshall, including her ice cream freezer and the idea of creating ice cream with the use of liquid nitrogen, have since become repopularised. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Marshall)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. No publish date printed, c. early 1900's, revised and enlarged edition, decent clean firm interior mostly but with some to-be-expected light age/usage marks, contains a f/p illustration of the author plus 125 illustrations throughout, light age-tone marks to prelim pages, vintage advertisements to e/papers; boards have rubs to corner and edges, a few small rub-marks to lower rear but good appearance mostly for the age with dulled gilt-lettering. https://hungrytraveller.com.au/3d-flip-book/mrs-a-b-marshalls-cookery-book/