On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Richard Wright wrote:

> COPAC shows that there is a 1948 edition of "Good Housekeeping Cookery
> Book, i.e. with 'wartime' omitted. That's about the right time to be
> looking in cookery books.

I have a slightly later edition, from a date when whale meat was certainly
available, but it doesn't get a single mention. Nobody would have bought
the book if it had dealt with whale meat. Good Housekeeping was for
respectable and conscientious housewives who would have been deeply
offended by the suggestion that they might serve up whale. The book is
silent also on the subject of horse flesh, for much the same reason.

JW
Edinburgh