Oxo Cookery Book
- Year
- 1900-1960
- Era
- 20th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- Trade/Advertising
The Oxo Cookery Book belongs to a long-running series of promotional recipe pamphlets issued by Oxo Ltd over several decades from around the turn of the twentieth century. Designed to popularise the brand's beef extract and stock cubes, successive editions feature soups, gravies, savoury dishes and invalid cookery built around the product. As trade ephemera, they document the rise of branded convenience foods and the integration of industrial seasonings into British domestic cooking.
Cooking from this book
Beef Tea
Signature dishBeef Tea is the dish most closely tied to the Oxo Cookery Book, a clear savoury broth made from concentrated beef stock and served as a warming restorative drink or light invalid food. Across the many editions issued by Oxo Ltd between 1900 and the 1960s, it appears as the emblematic preparation, showcasing the brand's famous stock cubes and reflecting the era's faith in beef essence as nourishment for the convalescent, the worker and the family alike.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.