All you need to know to make a ‘Harty Choke Pie’

Early recipe books can make for absorbing and, to modern readers, occasionally comic or puzzling reading, as demonstrated in three examples from recent sales.

Sold for £7500 by Bonhams (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on March 21 was a 51pp recipe book which b…

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