do you use your older cookbooks, or your more recent ones, more?

donny-gal

Yes, so true, my battered Bero book is my first call, and second is the Margarite Patten (sp) cookery in colour bought for me by my Mum before I was married!
DG

tru

I love my dairy cook book, it's falling apart so master tru said he'd buy me a new one for Christmas :T

We've got Million Menus (didn't pay £78.58 for it though :eek:) which is great, it's not like a normal book. It's spiral-bound and the pages are split into 3 horizontally, so you can choose your starter, main course and dessert and have all three open at once. Not that we actually eat three course meals at home, we're not posh :rotfl:

Loads of other books that we never look at, mr tru buys them then just sticks them on the shelf :rolleyes:

flissh

I think a Dairy Cookbook must have been my first, and it is still the one I grab for quick a quick reminder if I have forgotten easy stuff.
I have come back to the UK for an extended holiday and used a bit of my precious 23kg baggage allowance on Delia's Christmas Cookbook and my favourite Madhur Jaffery Indian cookbook. I just could not bear to leave them behind.

flissh

tru wrote: »

I love my dairy cook book, it's falling apart so master tru said he'd buy me a new one for Christmas :T

We've got Million Menus (didn't pay £78.58 for it though :eek:) which is great, it's not like a normal book. It's spiral-bound and the pages are split into 3 horizontally, so you can choose your starter, main course and dessert and have all three open at once. Not that we actually eat three course meals at home, we're not posh :rotfl:

Loads of other books that we never look at, mr tru buys them then just sticks them on the shelf :rolleyes:

78 quid :eek: How big is it?

Speckled_Egg

Although I am a complete book maniac I don't use them for cooking any more. I use https://www.bbcgoodfood.com and keep my laptop in the kitchen. It is brilliant and you can do a search on an ingredient, course, number of eaters, etc.

:j

tru

flissh wrote: »

78 quid :eek: How big is it?

11.8 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide and 1 inch thick. Yes, I really have just measured it :rotfl:

The price on the back is £11.99, we bought it from The Works so we paid less than that - but I can't remember how much :D

Edited:
I've just checked with mr tru, he paid £4.99 for it.

flissh

Phew. 4.99 sounds much better

linni

I too love the 'Bero' book and I also have 'The Art of Home Cooking' by Stork Cookery Service (mainly because it has all-in recepies that I can chuck in the Kenwood Chef) but I also use 'The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook' (which I bought for the kids) as it has lots of quick and easy receipies for when I don't have a lot of time.

thriftmonster

|I have a very small set oif shelves for books in my kitchen - so only the favourites make it there - the old brown Delia, More with Less, WI preserving books (1970s and 2000s), Ken Hom, Madhur Jaffrey, Harumi Kurihara, Ikea Swedish food, Beatrice Okajangas, Rose Elliott Pasta book and the all singing, all dancing M&S Freezer Cookbook from the 70s - which is still my favourite. (and the Bero books - 3 different editions)

Purple_Sparkles

I love my old cookery books, some of them are really old and I use them more for inspiration rather than sticking to the recipe. I don't buy the new ones, too fancy for me - I like good old fashioned cooking so the books are have are good old fashioned ones! I have quite a lot of old books, ones on smallholdings, vegetable gardening, home making etc... the kind that I guess were given to newly weds in the 40's/50's - got a brilliant one on home brewing. I'm going a bit off topic so I'll stop here.