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Great story @Stonehedge.
I love looking through old recipe books, I have a Mrs Beeton home management book from Circa 1880 which is a real eye opener.!
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My great grandfather was a fairly notable commercial baker who wrote a book that apparently had quite a lot of influence on how bread was made in Europe in the early 1900s. My grandfather followed in his footsteps and made a career out of bread but the tradition ended there.
About fifteen years ago, Richard Bertinet gifted a copy of it to my mum who in turn passed it on to me. He apparently used it a lot early in his career and had two copies. Nice guy! I stupidly leant it to a friend who lost it.
I finally managed to find a decent condition copy for a reasonable price today. Cant wait to see if I can scale any recipes down and make them work.
This is the book if anybody is interested. Will post some photos of recipes up when it arrives.
https://www.rookebooks.com/product?prod_id=43528