HOTCH POTCH 1978 Elizabeth Craig [Cookbook]

Author: Craig, Elizabeth
Title: HOTCH POTCH : a lifetime's favourite recipes
Publisher: Collins
Place Pub: Glasgow
Date Pub: (1978)
Edition: First ed
ISBN: 0004351371
Pages: 240
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD very good dj
Details: Introduction, glossary, index
Book Id: MAIN000273I
Notes: Elizabeth explains: I am calling this cookery book Hotch Potch because it is a collection of family recipes and recipes given to me for food I have enjoyed when visiting friends. The name is taken from a very popular soup in Scotland. The story goes that when Prince Albert was shooting on the moors one day, he came across a ghillie drinking soup out of a flask and he asked him what he was drinking. The ghillie replied hotch potch.
But what is hotch potch? asked the Prince.
There’s beans int’ilt, cabbage int’ilt, carrots int’ilt.
But what is int’ilt? asked the Prince.
There’s cauliflower int’ilt, there’s celery int’ilt and neeps int’ilt.
The dialogue continued until someone passing informed the Prince that int’ilt meant into it.
So, as this book contains all kinds of recipes, it qualified for the name of Hotch Potch.
About the author: Born in 1883 , Elizabeth Craig is still a working journalist, writing a weekly cookery column in the extremely popular weekly, The People's Friend,. She is the doyenne of Irish cookery writers and has contributed to daily, weekly and monthly periodicals in a career of over sixty years. In addition, she has written some forty books on cookery and related subjects, including the bestselling Collins Family Cookery.