Pyrex Casserole Cookery

A small leaflet from the Pyrex factory in Sunderland, UK showing some of the ways Pyrex can be used by the 'modern' housewife. It's hard to remember that using over-to-tableware was once a very new thing as housewives were used to cooking food and then decanting it into a serving dish before taking it to the table.

Check back for some photos of my attempts at casserole cookery in Pyrex dishes.

The Pyrex Book of Regional Cookery by Diana Cameron-Shea 1977

What better way to promote your cookware than to produce a cookery book showing housewives how to use it effectively! Well done to Pyrex for doing this exact thing! The book shows off the products as well as giving a range of regional recipes.

Lots of recipes divided by region in a handy spiral-bound book that can be flipped back on itself so that it will stand up on its own. So useful!

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The Pyrex Guide to Simple Cooking

A super set of 16 laminated recipe cards from the 1970s.

The Defrost Dictionary 1985

Way back when, fridges came with an ice box compartment just large enough for one packet of fish fingers or a block of ice cream and stand-alone freezers were unknown. Once they became more prevalent and were joined by the microwave oven, the housewife was suspicious of this new technology and was very worried about food hygiene and food safety.

This little book was a guide to cooking, defrosting and re-heating food.

Farmhouse Fare 1973

 

Produced by the editors of the Farmer's Weekly, this little book is crammed with recipes from the farmers and farmer's wives across the UK from cowslip wine to beestings pudding, this book has it all.

Marguerite Pattens Every Day Cook Book 1968

This is just one of Marguerite Patten's many cookbooks - she wrote over 170 - but it is one of the most well-loved and often-used. 

Marguerite was born in 1915 and had an early career in The Ministry of Food. Following this, she became a food writer and broadcaster, working late into life. She died in 2015 aged 99 after receiving both the OBE (1991) and CBEm(2001) awards.

 

I still use this cook book almost every time I bake. Lovely, classic recipes that work every time with super full-colour photographs to show you what you're aiming for - always a bonus!

Check back for photos later.

A Kentish Cookery Collection 1978

A collection of recipes taken from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the 17th to the 19th century.

This recipe book does what it says on the tin! . I'll post photos of the things I cook when I cook them.