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Where the Lion Roars: An 1890 African colonial recipe book was first published in 1890.




For the convenience of cooks and researchers with an interest in colonial-era cookery in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia, here is a list of topics that appear in the book's index:

A Minute Pudding
Adelaide’s Pudding
Albert Sandwiches
Almond Cake 
American Cake
Ammonia
Aniseed Cake
Anna’s Biscuits
Ants
Apple Chutney
Apple Dumplings
Apple Fool
Apple Jam
Apple Jelly
Apple Pie
Apple Pudding
Apple Sauce
Apple Water
Apples
Apples and Rice
Apples in Pink Jelly
Apricot Fritters
Apricot Jam
Apricot Preserve
Apricot Pudding
Apricot Pudding and Pie
Apricots
Apricots in Brandy
Apricots To Candy
Arrowroot
Arrowroot Cakes
Baba
Babies and Mothers
Bachelor Cake
Bachelor’s Pudding
Baked Apple Preserve
Baked Marmalade or Apricot Jam Pudding
Baked Pudding without Eggs
Banana Fritters
Barley Water
Bath Buns
Bathing
Batter Pudding Baked
Bean Soup
Beef    
Beefsteak Pudding
Beetroot
Beetroot Salad
Birthday Cake
Blackberry Jam
Black-cap Pudding
Blackheads
Blanc Mange   
Bleeding
Boiled Batter
Boiled Custard
boiled egg
Boiled Starch
Boils
Boston Cream
Brawn 
Bread
Bread Jelly
Bread Pudding 
Bread Sauce
Bread-and-butter Pudding
Bread-and-rice Dumplings
Bredie Bean
Bredie Cabbage
Brighton Cakes
Brine to make
Broad Beans
Broken Knife and Umbrella Handles to mend
Broken Limbs
Bronchitis
Bubble and Squeak
Buck
Buns   
Burning Oil
Burns
Burns and Scalds
Butter Scotch
Buttermilk Cake
Cabbage  
Cabbage pickled
Candle Grease to remove from table cloths
Canvas Water Coolers
Caper Sauce
Carrot Pudding
Carrots boiled
Castle Puddings
Cauliflower
Cauliflowers pickled
Caustic Soda
Celery Soup
Celery etc. Uses of
Cheese and Apple Salad
Chicken Jelly
Chicken Pie
Chicken Boiled
Child’s Breakfast
Child’s Illness
Chimney on Fire
China Glass to mend
Chiswick Pudding
Chocolate Creams
Choking
Chops
Chops Broiled
Christmas Cake
Christmas Pies
Citron Preserves
Citron Pudding
Citron To Preserve Whole
Clarified Sugar
Clear Syrup To Make
Cocoa
Cocoanut Tablet
Coffee
Coffee Cream
Colds Remedy for
Colonial-cured Hams
Cornish Pasties

Corns
Cough Mixture 
Coughs
Court Plaster To Make
Cow Dung Wash
Cow Heels
Cream Cake
Croup
Crystal Palace Pudding
Cucumber Salad
Cucumbers pickled
Currant Dumplings
Currant Loaves
Curry and Rice
Custard
Custard Pudding
Dainty Roll Pudding
Date Pudding
Delicate Cake
Diarrhoea
Diphtheria 
Dishorning of Cattle
Disinfectants
Distemper
Drenches through the Nose horses killed by
Dressing for Salad
Drowning
Duck Roast
Dysentery 
Earache
Early Pudding
Earnest Cake
Easy Pudding
Eels
Egg Tests
Eggs and Bacon
Eggs Pickled
Eggs Scrambled
Eggs to keep 
Eggs with mushrooms
Enemas
Engravings to clean
Excelsior Cake
Eye Lotion
Fainting
Fairy Pudding.
Favourite Pudding
Fever  
Fish Balls
Fish Pie
Fish Baked
Fish Boiled
Fish Curried
Fish Pickled
Flies
Floating Island of Apples
Flour Pudding
Flummery
Fowl Boiled
Fowl Roast
French Beans
French Cakes
French Pudding
Friar’s Omelet
Frikadels
Fruit Jelly
Fruit Pudding
Fruit Stains
Fruit To Bottle
Furniture Polish
Galette Cake
German Dumplings
Giblet Pie
Ginger Beer
Ginger Cakes
Ginger Pudding
Gingerbread
Golden Cake
Golden Syrup Pudding
Goose 
Gooseberry Jam
Grapes in Brandy
Gravy
Grease Spots
Green Apricot Convyt
Green Peas 
Green Spanspek Convyt
Gruel
Guava Jam
Haggis
Ham
Ham Spiced
Hare   
Hasty Pudding
Heartburn
Heavy Cake Cornish
Hiccoughs
Home Cake
Honey Cake
Hooping Cough
Hop Beer
Horseradish Sauce
Hot-water Remedies
Ice
Ice Cream
Icing
Ink Stains
Ink Stains from Linen etc to remove
Irish Stew
Ironing
Isinglass Fruit Pudding
Jam and Preserve Pots to cover
Jam Rolls
Jam Tart
Jenny Lind Cake
Jessie’s Cake
Katrina’s Biscuits
Keokuk Toast
Kidneys 
Lemon Cake 
Lemon Cheese
Lemon Creams
Lemon Custard

Lemon Custard
Lemon Drink
Lemon Drops
Lemon Jelly
Lemon Meringue
Lemon Pickle
Lemon Pudding 
Lemon Rind Preserve
Lemon Sponge
Lemon Syrup
Lemonade
Lemons To Preserve Whole
Lena’s Biscuits
Lettuce Preserve
Lettuce Salad
Lime in the Eye
Liver and Bacon
Liver with Onions
Luncheon Cake
Macaroons
Maccaroni with Mincemeat
Mamma’s Biscuits
Mange
Marble to clean
Mariette Pudding
Matrimony Tart
Measles
Meat Fried in Batter
Mildew
Milk Pudding
Milk Boil before Using
Milking of Cows 
Mince Pies
Minced Chicken or Mutton
Minced Meat
Minna’s Biscuits
Mint Sauce
Mixed Pickles 
Mortality among Sheep
Mosquito Bites To Prevent
Moths
Mulberry Preserve
Mumps
Mushroom Catchup
Mushrooms
Mustard
Mustard and Cress
Mutton      
Mutton Chops
Naartje Whole To Preserve
Nelly’s Pudding
New-born Infant
Oat Cakes
Odour of Painted Room to remove
Omelet Ham
Omelet Kidney
Omelet Tomato
Omelette
Onions boiled
Onions Use of
Orange Cheesecakes
Orange Float
Orange Fritters
Orange Marmalade
Orange Tart
Orange or Lemon Pudding
Oranges Preserved Whole
Ornamental Jelly
Ox Tail
Oysters  
Parsnips boiled
Pea Soup
Peach Preserve
Peaches
Peaches in Brandy
Peaches pickled
Peaches To Preserve
Pear Trees pests on
Pease Pudding
Pig Roast 
Pigeon 
Pigeon Pie
Plain Buns
Plain Cake
Plain Sweet Biscuits
Plum Cake 
Plum Pudding   
Poached egg
Poison
Pomade
Pork Pies
Pork Roast
Porridge
Potato Cakes
Potato Disease
Potato Pudding 
Potato Puff
Potato Salad
Potato new use for
Potatoes     
Pound Cake
Preserved Cucumbers
Preserved Quinces
Prickly Pear
Prunes
Puff Cake
Puff Pastry
Pumpkins 
Pyramid Pudding
Queen Cake
Queen Pudding
Quince Chutney
Quince Jam
Quince Jelly
Rabbit
Raised Cake
Raisins and other Dried Fruits
Raisins to stone
Raw Starch
Rhubarb and Bread-and-butter Pudding
Rhubarb Pie
Rhubarb Pudding
Rhubarb Stewed
Rice

Rice
Rice Black-cap Pudding
Rice Cake
Rice Pudding Baked
Ripe Figs To Preserve Whole
Rock Cake
Rolls
Roly-poly Jam Pudding
Rooibos or Bush Tea
Rusks
Saffron Cakes
Saffron Pudding Cornish
Sago Pudding
Salmon 
Salt Cod
Sardines
Sauer Braten
Sausage Rolls
Sausage German
Sausages
Save-alls for Candlesticks
Savoy Cake
Scarlet Fever
Scones  
Scorched Linen to restore
Sea Pie
Sea-sickness
Servants    
Setting a Table
Sheep Farming
Sherbet
Short Cake
Shortbread
Silver Cake
Simple Syrup To Make
Small Bottles to wash
Small-pox
Snake Bites
Soap To Make 
Soda Pudding
Soet Koek
Soles 
Sore Throat  
Sosaties
Soufflé Cheese
Spermaceti Ointment To Make
Spinach
Spirit Lamps for Heating Water etc
Sponge Biscuits
Sponge Cake
Sponge Cakes
Sponge Isabel Cake
Sponge Rolls
Sprains
Squashes
Stain Wood Mahogany Colour
Steak
Steak and Kidney Pie
Steak and Onions
Steak Grilled
Stew tomato
Stewed Steak
Sticking Plaster To Make
Strawberries
Strawberry Acid Drink
Strawberry Compote
Strawberry Cream
Strawberry Jam
Strawberry Soufflé
Strawberry Sweet Cake
Stuffing 
Suet Crust Pastry
Suet Dumplings
Suffocation
Sultan’s Pudding
Surprise Cakes
Sweet Maccaroni and Vermicelli Puddings
Sweet Potato
Sweet Potato Pudding
Swiss Pudding
Syrup of Quince
Table manners
Tainted Meat
Tapioca   
Tea
Tea Cake 
Teething
Templar’s Pudding
Tigers to destroy
Toad-in-the-hole
Toast Water
Toffee
Tomato Jam
Tomato Preserve
Tomato Salad
Tomato Sauce
Tomatoes Fried
Tomatoes pickled
Tongue
Toothache
Tripe 
Turkey 
Typhoid
Universal Pudding
Utensils
Vanilla Pudding
Vaseline Uses of
Vegetable Marrow Preserve
Velvet Pudding
Warts
Washing Paint
Washing up
Water Melon Convyt
Water to clarify
Watercress
Wedding Cake
Welcome Cake
Welsh Pudding
Welsh Rabbits
White Mountain Cake
Wine Cake
Wine Jelly 
Worms
Yeast
Yeast Dumplings
Yorkshire Pudding