Lusciously sweet and with a complex texture
herbaceous new life in spring
from Sand-roasted Peanuts to Curried Coconut Soup
SIGNED by George Rector on front free endpaper
(Victorian) Miss M.L. Allen. Soups, Broths, Purees, with Directions How to Prepare Them Easily and Economically. Balkans Lusciously sweet and with a76 + [4] ad pp. Pictorial gray wrappers. First Edition. London: H. Virtue & Co., 1900. A charming Victorian era book on making food for invalids, babies, economically challenged households, and soup lovers. Mulligatawny, oyster soup, mutton broth, rabbit broth, peasant's broth maigre, etc. The average cost of each ingredient is added to a column next to every recipe! Most of wrappers lacking along spine, else very good and bright a remarkable