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Index
Cover
Title Page
About the Author
By the Same Author
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Preface
CHAPTER ONE: In which the slaves in the Modestus bakery over-bake their bread
CHAPTER TWO: In which Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi writes a poem about sweet biscuits
CHAPTER THREE: In which Bartolomeo Scappi serves Pope Pius IV mostaccioli biscuits
WAFERS AND WAFFLES
CHAPTER FOUR: In which Lady Elinor Fettiplace bakes ‘stif bisket bread’
GINGERBREAD
CHAPTER FIVE: In which Spanish fishermen make biscuit soup on the Barbary coast
CHAPTER SIX: In which Joseph Banks enjoys fish and biscuit boiled for about an hour
CHAPTER SEVEN: In which Mrs Elizabeth Raffald opens a confectionery shop in Manchester
FUNERAL BISCUITS
CHAPTER EIGHT: In which Henry Mayhew marvels at the fabrication of fancy biscuits by a series of cog-wheels and cranks
DIGESTIVE BISCUITS
CHAPTER NINE: In which the English drown the French market with cataracts of plain and fancy biscuits
CHAPTER TEN: In which King Mwanga puts the lid on one of John Roscoe’s last tins of Osborne biscuits and carries them home
BISCUIT TINS
CHAPTER ELEVEN: In which May Hanaphy gives every penny of the 11s. 6d she earned at Jacob’s to her mother
CHAPTER TWELVE: In which Private G. L. Verney has fried corned beef and biscuit for breakfast, cold bully beef and biscuit for lunch and bully beef and biscuit stew for supper
ANZAC BISCUITS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: In which Pam Ashford anxiously stockpiles biscuits
CONCLUSION
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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