amylsacks' photos with the keyword: M. Sheppard Fidler

"...Serve hot dishes hot and cold dishes cold. Serve attractively. Experiment. Keep a record of exactly how you cook a new dish-- temperature, time, etc.-- so that you can repeat it exactly if it is a success, and vary it, if it needs improvement. It is better to cook a few dishes really well, than many dishes badly. Repeat your successes, with variations. Simple dishes, well cooked, perfectly flavoured and coloured, and properly served, make perfect meals for even the greatest occasions..."

"To be a Good Cook: Be interested in cooking. Use foods when they are in season and at their best and cheapest. Prepare ovens, pans, tins and utensils before mixing ingredients. Measure accurately. Get all consistencies right. Follow basic recipes exactly and then add variations. Understand your cooker. Season and flavour everything you cook. Taste it before serving. See that it is right in flavour, colour and consistency..."

"Good cookery is built on two wide foundations. 1. A sound understanding of basic recipes and methods of cooking. 2. A lot of enjoyment and imagination. "Without the first, no one can be a good versatile cook. Time is well spent in learning and remembering a few basic recipes and in understanding how to cook them. "When the foundations are secure, an infinite variety of new dishes may be built on them; you may experiment, extend the range of your menus, invent new dishes, and be sure of success. "If you wish to share in the real joy and satisfaction of cooking, then study these basic recipes, get to know them well, and soon you will find that you can build from them all sorts of new and delightful dishes..."

"Whatever you do, you will do it better if you understand what it is all about, and why you do it in a certain way. This book is an effort to help the housewife, and the student of cookery, to understand the 'Why:' and 'How:' of it all. "It is more than a book of recipes. It is a book of ideas, written to make your cooking more interesting, more varied, and more successful."

"Dedication: To those kindly critics of my cooking, my Husband and Son."

"By Margaret Sheppard Fidler: Triple Honours Diploma in Domestic Science Formerly Training College Lecturer in Cookery and Dietetics Examiner in Cookery for Matriculation and other bodies Inspector of Housecraft Teaching in Schools Cookery Editor and Expert Housewife"

Yet another discovery/rescue from the dollar shelf of yet another thrift store. Front and spine of a dust jacket, from a 210-page hardback published by Spring Books, London, England. (To see it in better condition, go here .)