"Meals On A Tray" 1927 LEYEL, Mrs. C.F.

LEYEL, Mrs. C.F.

[83] pp.

George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.

1927

7 1/2" x 5 1/8"

Jacket Design by K. Hale

VG/ VG

Part of the "Lure of Cookery" series by the legendary Mrs Leyel. Recipes for 25 Tray Meals and for 35 Tray Luncheons. Superb dustwrapper art by "K. Hale" (Kathleen Hale, the legendary British artist, illustrator and children's author most famous for her illustrations for Orlando the Marmalade Cat).

Written by C. F. Leyel, known for her expertise on herbalism, founding the society of Herbalists in 1927. Leyel was a strong advocate of a simpler style of cookery, favouring seasonal and local dishes rather than "high class" cookery. She was praised by renowned cookery writer, Elizabeth David, who credited her recipes with teaching her to cook, describing her writing as "fresh and alluring". This charming work presents numerous ideas for the practical "meal on a tray", using cupboard ingredients to prepare a tasty dish within half and hour. From the library of Jill Norman, an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and, as the only woman, the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced, and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden, and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends.