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- 1 2 3 ‘Consuming Interest’, Elizabeth David, The Spectator , 15th March, 1963
- ↑ Page 665, Enquire Within upon Everything (1894)
- ↑ Page 14, Good Things in England (1932)
- ↑ ‘Tea Making, My Experiments [1859]’, chapter XVII, page 456, volume IIIB, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (1930)
- ↑ Page 665, Enquire Within upon Everything (1894)
- ↑ Page 665, Enquire Within upon Everything (1894)
- ↑ Page 11, The Feill Cookery Book (1907)