Lessons : Women and cooking

Hemmets kokbok.
The Cookbook of the Home.




P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag
Pris 7 kronor

Price 7 Swedish crowns.


My grandmother, then 48 years old,
was marrying off my mother, who was 18.
So she bought the cookbook seen above
and sent it with the young bride to Norway.
The young bride used it.

My second grandmother, 65 years old then,
and my two aunts, 39 and 35 years old,
heard about the cookbook and found it , well,
amusing.
Cooking with a cookbook?
After all, women were born with the
knowledge how to cook.

Two families, two attitudes.