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Shire of Toodyay > Records

COOKERY BOOK OF GOOD AND TRIED RECEIPTS

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1925

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Overview

Hardback book with red cover titled: 'Cookery book of good and tried receipts'.
Recipe book compiled for the Women's Missionary Association of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. (Later versions of this recipe book became known as the PWMU Cookbook)
Eighteenth Edition. Price, 1s 6d.
240+ pages. Advertisements for products throughout the book, including Royal Insurance Company, Pick-Me-Up Sauce, Jackett's Self Raising Flour & Bournville Cocoa
Published March 1925 by Angus & Robinson, Sydney

Historical information

This book was used at the Convent of Mercy, Toodyay.
St Aloysius Convent of Mercy was a former Catholic convent located on Stirling Terrace in Toodyay, Western Australia, part of a larger site owned by the Church. The convent was a part of a complex built by the Sisters of Mercy to provide accommodation and a school.

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cwa-org-37-2001.1815

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Inside cover, written in longhand blue ink: 'Convent of Mercy Toodyay'.

Keywords

Convent Of Mercy

Year

1925

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