I know that book, too...I'm pretty sure I have a copy of it floating around here somewhere, along with several period cookbooks...and many other things. Victoriana is pretty big in my house. Wanna know how to make mid-Victorian knitted lace? Or stockings? Or the latest women's fashions ca. 1850 or how to make a syllabub, I'm your person.

There's a website at one of the Spanish universities that has scanned in copies of cookbooks through the ages...in English along with other languages. It's always fun to go there and read some of the old cookbooks...they've got some from the Elizabethan era, even.

I've got an original volume of Godey's Lady's Book from the year 1850 (the first issue which has a memorial for Edgar Allen Poe), and some some original edition crafting books from the 40s, (and later) and a variety of cookbooks and a whole group of how to make Victorian stuff that are facsimile editions,and have some needlework and other artifacts...including a pair of fine bone knitting needles and an ivory bodkin and an ivory crochet hook and a beautifully handsewn woman's chemise and other cool stuff, like some quite elegant hair combs that might be edwardian...

But I was reenacting mid-Victorian stuff, so I had a big need to know. As part of it, I privately published 4 small volumes of knitting books based on patterns from my collection of period patterns, translated for the modern knitter...out of print right now, until I get off my duff and re-edit them and do something else with'em.

Puddings are fun to make. But only in cold weather!