This Christmas cookery-themed case contains books from the McNab Collection, with a chiefly New Zealand flavour.
Dorothy Beatty. New Zealand cake decorating guide. Wellington: Sevenseas, 1974.
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Mrs J. Beaton (Editor). The universal cookery book: for the cottage or the palace. 5th edition. Dunedin: Mills, Dick and Co., 1925.
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David Burton. New Zealand food and how to cook it. Illustrations by Judy Lambert. Auckland: David Bateman, 1991.
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Station Life in New Zealand, by Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831-1911) is an account of her life as the wife of a Canterbury sheep farmer, compiled from her diaries and letters. The passage describes her preparations for a Christmas dinner at Broomielaw in 1866.
Lady Barker. Station life in New Zealand. Illustrated edition. Auckland: Random Century, 1991.
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Edward Wilson. Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904. London: Blandford Press, 1966.
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