What’s this book? (Food & History)

FannyCornforth not the book you are looking for. But I would highly recommend 'Food in Britain' by Dorothy Hartley. It was first published in 1954 and hasn't been out of print since.

Hartley wrote wonderful stuff about the agriculture, husbandry, cooking, homemaking, and eating of England from the Neolithic Age onwards, concentrating mostly on medieval and early modern food practices that continued and/or were adapted, mostly in country foodways, through the 19th and 20th centuries. This is from a quote from a review and I couldn't put it better, so haven't tried to.

I read and reread this regularly. One part that stays with me is the instructions and diagrams of how the bargees would cook the whole family meal, main course and pudding, in a bucket, carefully layering it so no one part contaminates another. The book is full of such revelations.

When he was staying with us my DF, then in his 90s, picked the book up and read it cover to cover.

Thanks not, I’ve just had a look on Amazon, and it’s not that; but that book looks brilliant. Right up my street

Could it have been Scoff by Pen Vogler? I saw her talking about it at last year's Hay Festival Online, which prompted me to buy a copy.

Ooh! Thank you ?
I look forward to that!

I have a list, which I’ll let you have when I get back from London this evening.

PS if you can recommend any other books about food and history; or indeed any social history of the UK, please do so.
I like Ruth Goodman.
Thank you!