cookery book Archives - Buth Kuddeh https://www.buthkuddeh.com/tag/cookery-book/ tastes of Sri Lanka Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:07:06 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe https://www.buthkuddeh.com/the-recipe-book-of-ada-de-la-harpe-2/ Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:04:42 +0000 https://www.buthkuddeh.com/?p=1125 Ada Henrietta Ferdinands, my grandmother, was born in 1883, the sixth of the fourteen children of Frederick William Ferdinands and […]

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]]> Ada Henrietta Ferdinands, my grandmother, was born in 1883, the sixth of the fourteen children of Frederick William Ferdinands and Henrietta Jansz, a Sri Lankan Dutch Burgher. Dutch Burghers are the descendants of employees of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who chose to remain in Sri Lanka when the British took over government of the country. This is a facsimile of my much treasured copy of her recipe book.

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