What is your Favourite Cookery Book and Why?

jaybee

I'm addicted to cookery books but, sadly, not to cooking. It always seems like such a good idea but the recipes never seem to work out quite right . . .

RosiePuddingPaws

The one I turn to most often is "The Joy of Cooking". It is an American book, but no pictures (so no worries about it not looking right), just page after page of recipes and variations on recipes. The pages with the ones I use most all have something stuffed in them (old Christmas card with pretty picture, postcard, mailing from a car dealer, whatever!) so I can find them easily. I have others (Hugh F-W, Nigella, Delia, Leiths and many more) which are useful for drooling over pictures or finding the occasional recipe. No Jamie though.

WantToBeSE

Oh, i also really like Jamies 30 minute meals. I find that the majority of them take longer than 30 mins, but they all taste lovely

Ilona

I don't have a cookbook. I make things up as I go along, remembering what my mum used to make. She wasn't very good at baking, so I don't do it, but she was good at making stews out of hotchpotch ingredients, and mine are brilliant and cheap.
Ilona

MrsE_2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Oh, i also really like Jamies 30 minute meals. I find that the majority of them take longer than 30 mins, but they all taste lovely

I like 30 minute meals, I love 15 minute meals (they prob take 30 minutes - lol).

MrsE_2

RosiePuddingPaws wrote: »

The one I turn to most often is "The Joy of Cooking". It is an American book, but no pictures (so no worries about it not looking right), just page after page of recipes and variations on recipes. The pages with the ones I use most all have something stuffed in them (old Christmas card with pretty picture, postcard, mailing from a car dealer, whatever!) so I can find them easily. I have others (Hugh F-W, Nigella, Delia, Leiths and many more) which are useful for drooling over pictures or finding the occasional recipe. No Jamie though.

I hate it when they don't have pictures.
I bought Tom Kerridges proper pub food today from Amazon, I was disappointed to find not every recipe has a photo.

niftythrifty33

I was bought 'How to feed your whole family a healthy balanced diet with very little money' as a gift a few years ago and although I use Delia a lot, I have used this more than any other cookbook. Every meal uses normal cheap ingredients. It's all family food and all very economical. Maybe a bit basic for some but if you're on a budget I'd highly recommend it.

Chris25

I have a Stork cookery book - think it's called Art of Baking with Stork. It's brilliant, very old & very useful. It's full of basic step and also gives loads of variations on recipes.
It's this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Cook-Book-Art-Home-Cooking-Stork-Recipe-Book-/400628415415?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item5d47507bb7 - I can't c&p pictures or photos with this mouse :mad:

poppyjane

The one I use all of the time, is the Quorn cookbook. It's just simple everyday stuff, but the recipes always turn out brilliantly. The flavours are really, really good

kerleytops

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery, bought from the milkman in the late sixties/early seventies. Absolute classic.
Published in 1968!