Housewares brand Kilner is celebrating its 175th anniversary with the launch of its first cookbook on August 10. The original Kilner jar was invented by John Kilner and Co in 1842 in England and is now used worldwide to not only preserve and pickle fruit and vegetables but to cook …
Read More »Monks find antique cookbook hidden in abbey
An antique list of recipes found at an abbey in Somerset has been turned into a cookbook. Dating from 1793, the list was discovered in the archives of a library in a Benedictine monastery: Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse. The recipes were used by monks more than 200 years ago to …
Read More »Mary Berry tops best-selling books chart
Four cookbooks appear in ‘The Mail On Sunday’ UK weekly bestsellers list of non-fiction hardbacks. Mary Berry leads the way at number one with ‘Mary Berry Everyday’. In this official tie to the celebrity cook’s recent BBC TV series of the same name, Mary covers all the recipes from the …
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