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External Links

• Anglo Indian Cuisine Wikipedia
• Indian Colonial Household Manuals & Cookery Bibliography: British Library www.esrc.ac.uk
• Bibliography of European Colonial-Era Cookbooks (19th–20th Centuries) mostly British India and Africa. gherkinstomatoes.com
• Anglo-Indian Food from Bridget White-Kumar's Anglo-IndianFood.blogspot
  • "A passage to colonial India" by Mini Anthikad-Chhibber June 2, 2011 The Hindu. Article about Bridget White-Kumar.
• "Curries And Bugles And Microwaves : Looking Back: Jennifer Brennan On The Colonial Food Of India's British Raj" by Ruth Reichl October 11, 1990 Los Angeles Times. A Chicken curry recipe, by Jennifer Brennan mykitchenantics.blogspot
• "What's cooking in the Dak Bangla?" by Rajika Bhandari November 09, 2012 www.mid-day.com Includes two recipes by Jennifer Brennan
• "Flavours of the Raj" by Rahul Verma July 4 , 2010 The Telegraph Calcutta
• "The Last Days of The Raj: Food in British India" The Greasy Spoon blog.
• Article "The return of Culinary Jottings for Madras" (3 pages) by Vikram Doctor 3 May, 2008 The Economic Times. Another article (mostlyfood.co.uk) with some details of the author "Wyvern". See below for an online edition of this book.
• Blogs by Vikram Doctor, The Economic Times. Before the Dawn of Pressure Cookers. The Santosh Cooker May 25, 2012, Slow, Delicious & in Many Tiers. The Icmic Cooker September 03, 2012
• This link refers very briefly to the cookbooks of Harvey Day: "Veterans were understandably captivated by Indian cuisine during their tenure, inspiring Harvey Day’s wonderfully archaic and superbly sentient The Complete Book of Curries"
  • Images of the cover and ten pages of text including recipes: Curries of India by Harvey Day, published 1955 flickr.com. Some of the individual images have additional details.
    • "An Adventure in Curry" with a recipe from Curries of India
  • Harvey Day also wrote The Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth Book of Curries, published from 1958 to 1967, The Complete Book of Curries (A combined edition of “The first (-fourth) book of curries”) published 1966, and reprinted 1971, and some additional books.
    • Potato Recipe www.foodgeeks.com, Poultry Recipes (Scroll down) www.billabbie.com, Khedgeree Recipe (Scroll down) www.billabbie.com from The Complete Book of Curries
• India–British-Raj List post about Moghul Cooking: India’s Courtly Cuisine by Joyce Westrip Look inside the book amazon.com
• Potted histories- Kedgeree Telegraph.co.uk
• "The Imperial Cocktail: How the gin and tonic became the British Empire’s secret weapon" by Kal Raustiala August 28, 2013 www.slate.com

Recommended Reading

• The Raj at table By David Burton. London: Faber, 1994 (See Review Society reading list)

Historical Books online

• Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book: comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both Oriental and English, with much miscellaneous matter, answering all general purposes of reference connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals, residing at the presidencies or out-stations by R. Riddell 5th edition 1860 (3rd edition was 1852) Google Books. Recipes commence Chapter V:Soups page 58
• A short section on "Indian Cookery", page 221 The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook 1850 Google Books
• "Indian Cookery" page 113 The Englishwoman in India: information for Ladies on their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping .... and Receipts for Indian Cookery by a Lady Resident 1864 Google Books
• The Indian Cookery Book, published c 1900 by Thacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta. Published 1869 as The Indian cookery book: a practical handbook to the kitchen in India, adapted to the three presidencies; containing original and approved recipes in every department of Indian cookery; recipes for summer beverages and home-made liquers; medicinal and other recipes; together with a variety of things worth knowing by a Thirty-five years' resident. Project Gutenberg Australia. Restricted viewing 1880 Hathi Trust version, probably available to those in North America
• Culinary Jottings: a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles by "Wyvern" (Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert) 5th edition 1885 Archive.org Originally published as Culinary jottings for Madras c 1878. Subsequently c 1904 published as Wyvern's Indian Cookery Book
• Dainty Dishes for Indian Tables 2nd edition 1881 Archive.org
• The Curry Cook's Assistant or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original Style by Daniel Santiagoe General Servant, Son of Francis Daniel, Butler and Fiddler, Trichinopoly, Madras, India, and Colombo, Ceylon 3rd edition 1889 London. Gutenberg.org
• Anglo-Indian and Oriental Cookery by Mrs Grace Johnson 1891 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website
• The English Bride in India by Chota Mem ((Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments" from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes
• The Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan by Mary Kennedy Core 1917 Project Gutenberg. The introduction indicates the author was an American missionary.
• Indian cookery and confectionery (407 recipes) by Mrs. I.R. Dey published 1920 ? in Calcutta. Archive.org. Transcriptions of recipes bookdome.com

Restricted viewing (probably available in North America)

• Indian cookery "local" for young housekeepers 2nd edition 1887 Hathi Trust Digital Library
• The Economical Cookery Book (for India): A Thoroughly Practical Manual of Simple and Dainty Dishes Connected with the Correct Method of Serving Them ... French Culinary Terms. Glossary of Hindustani Terms with English Equivalents by GLR (G. L. Routleff) 1920 Google Books Hathi Trust version