96pp. Decorated and lightly illustrated. Indexed. Pale yellow cloth boards (clean, strong, bright, square). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped along edges). A little book about creating your own store cupboard of delicious preserves and chutneys, potted meats and fish, biscuits, sweets and other traditional bottled and tinned delights. Some of the recipes are adapted from 19th century cookbooks while others are more recently developed by the author. All designed to keep food the old fashioned way, without the use of a freezer, so ecologically appealing too. Gift quality book.