ALL ABOUT BISCUITS
London: Offices of, circa 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Written for professional bakers, confectioners, and shopkeepers to expand their commercial offerings, this Edwardian-era handbook to classic British biscuits supplies the recipes and techniques for a wide variety of macaroons, petits-fours and rout biscuits, meringue biscuits, dessert and wine biscuits, cheap biscuits, and hard bisquits. A volume in the "All About Confectionery Series". Royal octavo: viii, 183, [1] pp. with 105 figures and numerous advertisements. Original green cloth binding, with dark green-stamped borders and dark green and white-stamped titling. Newspaper clipping tipped in at the bottom corner of p.55, with some mild offsetting to the opposing leaves. Ink inscription in Simplified Chinese to the inner margin of p.1. The boards are especially fresh and bright, with some negligible wear to the corners and tips. Very good. Item #80599
Price: $125.00