Puddings. Baked, Boiled, Fried, Steamed, and Iced [The Lure of Cookery series.]

Bookseller Notes

Hilda Leyel was a cookery author and herbalist, responsible in large part for reviving in the twentieth-century the tradition of which Culpeper was the apogee. In the year of this book, her star was on the rise - she had founded the Society of Herbalists and opened her shop, Culpeper House, in Baker Street. Although it is in the field of herbalism that her legacy largely resides, as a cookery writer she was an acknowledged influence on Elizabeth David, among others, and the present book is a good example of her style - unfussy and unreserved, with an equal knowledge of traditions and the contemporary domestic environment. The 'Lure of Cookery' series was aimed at the inexperienced, young housewife - as the cover image by Kathleen Hale depicts - offering, to use David's word for Leyel's essence, 'stimulus' rather than a rote manualA large part of Kathleen Hale's early career consisted of dustjacket-design work, including other titles in this series.