April 2025
There are two unusual features of Ada’s Cookery Book for me. The recipes follow each other closely with no space for additions and little for revisions: they are ordered into categories; there is an index; there are no pasted in recipes from others; all of which usually characterize domestic cookbooks. When I asked my mum about it she said that Ada probably at some stage got all her recipe cards and notes together ordered like published cookbooks she would have seen and then wrote the book we now have. Mum thinks she did this late in the 1930’s or early 1940’s. Why Ada chose to do this remains Ada’s secret.
