Cooking
Elizabeth Craig’s love of cooking lasted her whole life. She started to cook when she was six and she started to collect recipes from the age of 12. She declared that the only formal training she had in cookery was a “three months course in Dundee”.
Craig began publishing cookery books after the end of World War I and proceeded through World War II and into the 1980s. She began writing in times when food was scarce and rationing was heavily relied upon, and her career ended when the majority of households had a refrigerator and an opportunity to access a much wider variety of foods: this can be observed in her writing as more diverse dishes appear in her later books.
Her contribution to English culinary literature comprises a very large corpus of traditional British recipes, although not only this: included are also a considerable collection of recipes from other countries which she liked to collect during visits abroad
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