So, after my last post about this series of books, I got a few out of the library. The Mary Frances Cookbook just came in and oh my god-
I can't quite believe how wonderful these illustrations are. All the cookware has this naughty, sweet attitude-I am kind of bugging-out here. This book, like the others, were written to teach little girls about cooking and preparing meals, and cleverly, the lessons are wonderfully told in a story with talking cookware (how can you resist?)-their smiles are almost menacing, like they know something you don't. . .sauce pan and auntie rolling pin are my favorites.
Lovely mouse-and a great lesson on folding napkins. And there are recipes like "Thimble Biscuits" for your dollys, naturally, where you actually cut out little biscuits with a thimble. so cute I am in pain. And "A Man's Lunch" which is Boiled Mutton. Well, of course.
Too good. I will post another one soon, I have checked out 3. So far, this is my favorite, for the illustrations alone. Warning-before you run out and buy these for you and possiblely your small ones, in the hopes that they to will love to learn the domestic arts (ha!)- these are period books, and have some political incorrectness that pops up in unexpected places, not exactly "free to be you and me" but, oh my, I love them. And the library.
