Extra Reasons for Cake

with recipes for potted salmon, seed-cake for children and orange cordial for grownups

Recipes to suit an Edwardian way of life are provided by Lady Jekyll, sister-in-law of the more famous gardening Gertrude, who contributed a lively cookery column - stories, recipes, people - to The Times of London in the aftermath of the Great War. Published as Kitchen Essays in 1922 with chapter-headings such ‘A Winter Shooting Party’ and “A little Supper After the Play”, her ladyship chronicles the last of a carefree Edwardian way life while providing a strong sense of what’s to come through the provision of sensible, straightforward recipes for households where servants (as well as husbands, brothers and sons) were in short supply.