Mrs. Manders’ Cook Book by Olga Sarah Manders (Edited by Rumer Godden)

Hardcover (1968)

“There is one question everybody asks me: ‘Mrs. Manders, how did you learn to cook like this?’ The answer is: ‘Not in five minutes—and not only by cooking.'” Mrs. Manders began as a housemaid and trained for six years at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris before taking her first post. Her recipes, per editor Rumer Godden, are best described as “goluptious.”