From Dunoon to Dunedin
What two distant charitable cookbooks reveal about the British tradition of soups
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30494Keywords:
charity cookbooks, new zealand, Scotland, 1905, Presbytertian, soup, migration, recipe lineage, ingredientsAbstract
The author describes two charity cookbooks both dating from 1905, one published in New Zealand and the other in Scotland. Surprisingly, they both had quite a lot in common.
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