British coffee recommendations, 1922

You can gain such interesting insights from primary documents, actual old books and articles and other writing; this is a tiny series from the 1922 collection Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll (the sister-in-law of the famous Gertrude the gardener). Re coffee, which includes reminders of where coffee was grown and exported in those days:

Good coffee may come from Arabia or India, from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, or via France with an admixture of chicory; but its flavour and excellence will be derived from daily careful roasting and grinding.

She also recommends frothing some cream and pouring it over milky coffee just before serving, yum!

British tea recommendations, 1922

You can gain such interesting insights from primary documents, actual old books and articles and other writing; this is a tiny series from the 1922 collection Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll (the sister-in-law of the famous Gertrude the gardener).

She recommends always having available for breakfast time "a tea caddy which will contain a delicate as well as a pungent blend of tea" and "more than one teapot" of course.

Kingan's Meat Recipe Book, 1930s??

Even the scholars are not sure of the date as far as I have been able to see; there is an interesting list of publications from this enterprising Indiana company at https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/kingan-and-company-collection.pdf .

By the way, this is the last entry from my humongous collection I got years ago of retro cookbooklets! which I labeled Retro Mailbox Bliss, though some were available in shops when they were published...