Cookery Treasures from the Esk Valley

At a meeting of the Esk Valley group of the CWA in 1950, Joan harnessed that assurance to propose that they publish a cookery book. Her eldest daughter, Eve Prendergast, suspects it was as much about helping other women, who had married recently and moved to the area, as it was about raising money. In the end The Esk Valley Cookery Book achieved both, selling more than 400,000 copies and generating many thousands of dollars in profit.