Cookbooks

mardatha

I am looking for oldstyle or wartime cook books, or even very frugal cookbooks I want to do more veg, but not vegetarian because that's always complicated and I hate cooking very much. I just want to cut down the amount of meat we eat - but he can't eat pasta or carbs --hence the veg bit So anybody got any titles of good ones please give me !

Norman_Bean

I've got M Patten's Feeding the Nation
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feeding-Nation-Nostalgic-Recipes-1940-1954/dp/0600614727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265991744&sr=1-1

HTH

Norm x

annie123

Old wartime recipes you could try him with:

Woolton Pie
Ingredients
1 lb Potato, diced
1 lb Swede, diced
1 lb Cauliflower, diced
1 lb Carrot, diced
3 or 4 Spring Onions (if possible)
1 tsp vegetable extract or stock cube
1 tbsp Oatmeal
Chopped parsley
Pastry (for the crust)
Method

Mix together the vegetables, vegetable extract and oatmeal and cook
together for around 10 minutes in just enough water to cover.
Stir occasionally to prevent the mixture from sticking.
Allow to cool and place into a pie dish.
Sprinkle with the parsley before covering with a pastry crust.
Bake in a moderate oven until the pastry is nicely browned and serve with hot gravy.
This pie should serve 4 to 5 people.

And for you::D

Carrot fudge

Ingredients:

Carrots

Gelatin

Orange essence

Method:

Finely grate carrots and cook four tablespoons full in just enough water to cover for 10 minutes.
Add flavouring with orange essence, grated orange rind or orange squash/cordial.
Melt a leaf of gelatin.
Add gelatin to mixture.
Cook quickly for a few minutes stirring all the time.
Spoon into a flat dish.
Leave to set.

Cut into cubes and eat or as I did try one and put out for the foxes who did like it:rotfl:

I have 'we'll eat again' somewhere, will see if I can dig it out this weekend and post it to you.

mardatha

:eek::eek::eek: THAT'S NOT MY IDEA OF FUDGE !!:(

Swan_2

I think it's thriftlady has some wartime books and/or recipes, I think she did a challenge a while back where her family lived on the equivalent of wartime rations

anyway, I'm sure she'll be along as soon as she notices a thread with 'cookbook' in the title

23rdspiral

i've got Delia's thrifty cooking book from the 1970s - its great.

mardatha

The thing with cookery books is that I hate cooking. We dont eat fancy, no chillies/curries/garlic/rice - and I hate cooking. So the wartime stuff will suit me much better , no strange foreign ingredients LOL !

aliadds

I love the Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Farmhouse-Kitchen-Cook-Book/dp/0004112563

Swan_2

aliadds wrote: »

I love the Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Farmhouse-Kitchen-Cook-Book/dp/0004112563

I've got that one, I love it too

lots of traditional uncomplicated recipes

annie123

You will like reading this thread Mardatha
Thriftladys wartime experiment :
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=481412&highlight=wartime

Swan_2

annie123 wrote: »

You will like reading this thread Mardatha
Thriftladys wartime experiment :
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=481412&highlight=wartime

that's the challenge I was thinking of above, well done finding the thread