Delia Collection: Soup Book

I have an original edition of this hard cover book and cannot find the cover here. There were no ISBN numbers. Published in 1915. By June Eayre Fryer. It's full of stories and recipes for youngsters and lively illustrations. My grandmother gave me this book when I was a child; there's good in being the eldest in a family. Like all the kids before me, including my mother, who loved this book, I embellished it with my own drawings and a few words. (sigh) There is a story about a bum and marks he leaves so other bums know where to find a friendly meal. There are napkin folding instructions, and more. The original cover design is in color of a young lady and her cat in front of an old fashioned stove talking to the teakettles, because of course everything and everyone in the book talks. Oddly, the wall behind her has what appear to be subway tiles on it, and I now have those in my kitchen! I never noticed that before now.

This book will be passed along to my own granddaughters, maybe when they're old enough to know not to deface the book, although I don't think I left any blank pages unadorned, alas.