Malaysian teacher restores mother's 70-year-old cookbook

Dombey is happy her mother’s cookbook has had a facelift. Photos: Valerie Dombey

As a teenager who grew up in the 1980s, Valerie Joan Dombey loved to cook.

She’d spend hours poring over Singaporean author Ellice Handy’s cookbook, My Favourite Recipes. The book, published in 1952, is known for a compilation of Western, Chinese, Malayan, and Indian recipes, cakes, pastries and desserts.