Little Dot's Cookery Book
- Year
- 1880
- Era
- 19th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- Children's
Little Dot's Cookery Book is a late Victorian juvenile cookery primer issued anonymously in England, representative of a growing nineteenth-century genre that introduced domestic skills to middle-class children, particularly girls, through simplified recipes and miniature household instruction. Works of this kind reflect period attitudes toward early domestic training and the moral value attached to practical kitchen knowledge, and they survive today as scarce ephemeral witnesses to Victorian nursery and schoolroom culture.
Cooking from this book
Queen Cakes
Signature dishA perennial favourite of Victorian nursery cookery, Queen Cakes are dainty little buns, lightly fruited with currants and baked in small fluted tins to produce a golden crust and tender crumb. Their modest scale and gentle flavour made them an ideal first baking project for young hands, which is precisely why they sit so happily within this charming compilation aimed at instructing children in the pleasures and discipline of the kitchen.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
