Most of my recipes have been printed from the Internet and are tucked inside "Food from your Garden" Readers Digest. These are my favourite recipes and one day I'll get round to making aproper book for them!
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Leanne
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Posted: 16 Feb 2006 02:25 pm Post subject:
i suppose my favourite has to be the grubbiest book on my shelf- its grubbiness down to constant use over the years. Pristine books obviously arent used much!
Good Housekeeping Cookery Book. my copy is 1981 but is a reprint, and updated from 1944/1946/1972/1976. I suppose good recipes and clear techniques stand the test of time!
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I've got a good housekeeping book that I refer to a lot, not sure which year it's from. Then for fish it's the Rick Stein Seafood book. I have a SA cook book that I use for a lot of SA recipes including curry. The rest are all recipes from delia online and bbc food website and some from various forums. I really should get them printed out and bound into a file otherwise I'm going to lose them one day.
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I've got a good housekeeping book that I refer to a lot, not sure which year it's from. Then for fish it's the Rick Stein Seafood book. I have a SA cook book that I use for a lot of SA recipes including curry. The rest are all recipes from delia online and bbc food website and some from various forums. I really should get them printed out and bound into a file otherwise I'm going to lose them one day.
Don't tempt fate! That happened to me when my computer crashed and my data was lost. Silly really - I used to always back up my computer when working - but never do my home one - and most of the things are more precious aren't they?
How many of you regularly back up your home computers I wonder - I hope that is in not just me that doesn't do it regularly!
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nanny
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Posted: 20 Feb 2006 09:23 pm Post subject:
i'm afraid my hugh fearnley books get used most, then the yorkshire televison farmhouse cook book followed by gary rhodes great british classics
other than that i have a VERY ancient farmers wife cookbook that i was given in 1976 that i find indispensible at times, mostly the times when the cupboard is almost bare...our grandmothers were adept at making something out of nothing........
mind you the beetroot and potatoe pie looks a bit like a train crash when it hits the plate but it tastes ok
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Posted: 20 Feb 2006 10:23 pm Post subject:
Counted up 187, books on cookery the other day, but the favourites are Floyd on Britain and Ireland, Jane Grigsons, Charcutery, English foods, Elizabeth Davids french cooking, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstals Meat, and Nose to Tail eatng. I also like Rick Steins, books , not to mention La Rousse Gastronomique.
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Counted up 187, books on cookery the other day, but the favourites are Floyd on Britain and Ireland, Jane Grigsons, Charcutery, English foods, Elizabeth Davids french cooking, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstals Meat, and Nose to Tail eatng. I also like Rick Steins, books , not to mention La Rousse Gastronomique.
So that is where you get your inspiration. Can you tell me the author of your Charcutery book please - now that you have got me sausage making
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I hestiate to ask, but is there anything you are still looking to get to complete your..... larder, SL?
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alison
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Posted: 23 Feb 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:
n wrote:
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Cookery book-ist's anonymous may have a founder member?
I hestiate to ask, but is there anything you are still looking to get to complete your..... larder, SL?
n
One i am very keen to aquire (and Alison has it) is ''Lamb'' in ''The good cook/ Techniques And Recipes'' By Time life books. I have Beef and Veal, Pork, Offal, and Hot Hors-dOeuvre, in the series but cannot trace Lamb. They are very descriptive books.
Oh and Lottie, the charcuterie book is by Jane Grigson, (Sophie Grigsons late mum) and another very good one is ''Book of sausages'' by Anthony & Araminta Hippisley Coxe. Paperbacks both.
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Leanne
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Posted: 24 Feb 2006 05:10 pm Post subject:
I still have it on my list too SL, must be quite an obscure book!! I've even looked in the second hand bookshops in Edinburgh, I've seen the titles you already have SL but not the lamb one.
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brahma
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: book for jams and chutneys
Sl, what was the title of that book, i'll be going to Hay on wye in the next few weeks and they have thousands of second hand bookshops, I could have a look for you if you want?
I use the readers digest book of housekeeping for traditional recipes, but my most used one is a book of coco's and its the 1000 best vegetarian recipes (its a seriuosly heavy book and would most likely do you some damage if it fell on your head... )
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Posted: 01 Apr 2006 08:19 pm Post subject:
It's good cooks, by Time life. They are very good ,descriptive books and in particular i am looking for ,Lamb, Game, Preserving,and terrines and pates. If anyone finds them i would of course send cost's at least. And be very greatful. I have recently found ,in charity shops Poultry. Fish and Shellfish. Thank you for your help folks.
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chickens1968
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Posted: 02 Apr 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:
I have a cupboard full of cookery books but only two stay out and they are Delia's complete illustrated cookery course and Leiths cookery bible but my favourite recipe I use of all time is Jamie Olivers Fisherman Pie
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My favourite is an Italian vegetarian book called "Truly Italian" by Ursula Ferrigno. It is a fantastic book - someone on another board once described it as food porn - it is! Makes my mouth water whenever I read it. Even if you're not a veggie, it's full of seasonal recipes, so great for homegrown produce.
I don't have many cookery books at all and I mostly use them for inspiration. I rarely follow recipes - even when baking!
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I have a fairly slim recipe-book shelf, and tend to forget to look in them anyway, so when I need a recipe, I always end up looking it up on the internet, writing it out, putting it in a cupboard... And then forgetting it and looking up the same recipe again months later!
My cooking is all pretty experimental, I only tend to look up things like dumplings, that are simple, but I don't use often enough to remember.
Actually, the most used recipe book in this house is the bread maker instructions! I've never used it for jams, like you can apparently do, but we've done some of the other stuff like pizza bases and other doughs.
I have a book called "Pooh's tasty smackerels" that someone thought was about my level when I went to university
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