Cranks Vegetarian Cookery Books

Teria

I've got a couple of the Cranks books - somewhere - but I prefer Eva Batt. Much more down to earth.

mother_noah

Homity pies from " the cranks recipe book "are a favourite in this house .Have several cranks books and Rose Elliot all picked up at charity shops .Harder to find now because charity shops seem to sell only the newer books now all the interesting tatty ones are no where to be found.

Rowan9

Have used a Moosewood book which I ordered from the library. It was really good. I also have a Rose Elliott and 2 Cranks - I think all are good in differing ways.
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Flyboy152

I know this is an old thread (I found whilst pottering around looking at something else ), but I used to eat at Cranks in Marshall Street, from the sixties to the early nineties, after swimming in the pool next door. Although the quality of the food was good, I always found it to be quite overpriced, even for the West End.

twinkle_star_2

I've been using the Cranks books since I was a kid. No complaints here and their nut roast is super-yummy!

twinkle_star_2

For those who have Rose Elliot books - I am looking at buying some of her books but I'm confused by all the different versions!

Should I get 'The Bean Book' from or 'Not just a load of Old lentils' or both?! Or is there one with both in?

foxgloves

Two of my best used 'economy' cookbooks are the original 'Cranks Cookbook' which I bought in the 1980s and is now falling to bits as I've used it so much. (The Mushroom Stroganoff is lovely....how can such a handful of ordinary ingredients turn into something so nice...have even done at dinner parties when I've had a vegetarian to feed & always goes down well). Lots of my standard recipes come from this book. Also like Rose Elliott's 'Cheap & easy vegetarian cookbook'. Favourites from that are the butterbean quiche, the cheesy topped multicoloured butterbean thing & the golden lentil soup which I have actually just made this morning & must cost pence!

dibblersan

there was a really good cookbook that i had when i was younger but i can't remember what it was called now.

it had a wounderful recipie for appricot soup that was bright orange and tasted lovely.

can anyone identify if for me.

i've thought it was cranks, but looked recently and it's not in the book i thought it was, and it's not in thrifty fifty which is the other place i thought it was.

anyone?

foxgloves

My first thought was that it was Crank's as the original book had the recipe for Armenian soup which contained apricots, but it obviously isn't if you've had a look through that one, so I'll have to keep thinking.

VJsmum

I have the cranks bible but much prefer Sarah Brown (no, not that one ) books