From Cookbook of the Day: The Complete Jam Cupboard by Mrs. C.F. Leyel, Hilda to her friends. She was quite the lady, writing a series of cookbooks and becoming a preeminent herbalist of her day. She founded the Society of Herbalists in England in 1927. She ran a chain of herbalist shoppes named after that founding herbalist, Culpeper. Her series of slight cookbooks turned the head of one of our favorite cookbook authors and writers, Elizabeth David who turned the head of Alice Waters. ( )