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Elizabeth Craig lived from 1883 to 1980. She wrote over 40 books. Most were cook books but some were household management books in the "Enquire Within" series.

She was born in a manse in Scotland, married to an American, and lived most of her life in England.

In the 1930s, she was hired by the Phoenix Glassware company to help design and lend her name to their range of heat-proof glass cooking dishes.

Reputedly, at the end of her life as she was in the hospital suffering from a broken hip, she heard talk of her publisher getting someone else to finish her final book. She proclaimed this "ridiculous", had all her notes and files brought to the office, and finished the book herself there in the hospital.

Books

1923. The Stage Favourites' Cook Book (over 400 recipes from stage actresses of the time. Published by Hutchinson.)
1930s Recipes by Elizabeth Craig for use with Borwick’s Baking Powder
1933. Entertaining With Elizabeth Craig
1934. The Vicomte In The Kitchen: Mauduit's Cookery Book. (with Frances, Countess of Warwick)
1934. The importance of eating potatoes (Written for and Published by the Potato Marketing Board)
1934. Wine in the Kitchen
1934. Elizabeth Craig's Standard Recipes
1936. Woman, Wine and a Saucepan
1936. Housewives' Monthly Calendar
1936. Cookery Illustrated and Household Management (Odams Press. Editor.)
1937. The way to a good table: electric cookery (Written for and Published by the Electrical Development Association)
1939. Cooking with Elizabeth Craig
1941. Cooking in Wartime
1941. Needlecraft; sewing and knitting from A - Z
1947. Elizabeth Craig's Needlecraft
1952. Gardening With Elizabeth Craig
1953. English Royal Cookbook Favourite Court Recipes
1955. Beer and Vittels
1956. A Book of Mediterrean Food
1956. The Scottish Cookery Book
1958. Scandinavian Cooking
1959. A Cook's Guide To Wine
1960. Cottage Cheese and Yogurt
1962. Banana Dishes
1965. Cook Continentale
1965. The Penguin Salad Book
1969. The Art of Irish Cooking
1970. Business Woman's Cookbook
1978. Hotch Potch

Literature & Lore
"I can't very leave the subject of Scottish parties without mentioning Halloween. When I was in my teens, the games we played were more important than the fare. We used to sit cross-legged on the floor round black gypsy pots full of fluffy mashed potatoes and sup them with wooden spoons. There were charms embedded in the potatoes. If you came across a sixpence it guaranteed you wealth, if you found a ring you were the first to be married. The button ensured you single bliss, and so on. Then we used to 'dook' for apples in a tub of water and play forfeits, fortified by lemonade and cocoa and home-made biscuits. Sometimes we danced to the tinkle of a tinny piano. When I grew older the fare at Halloween parties became more elaborate - sandwiches, lobster and oyster patties, jellies, creams and trifles and claret cup, and dancing, consequences and forfeits passed the evening away."

-- from Elizabeth Craig's The Scottish Cookery Book, 1956.

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