Your favourite cookbooks

D&DD

Just discovered this thread doing a search for wartime recipes on here and wanted to say thanks to all the contributors...I now have a great shopping list to work from. :T

twink

I love recipe books, and love looking for them at car boot sales, i especially like the ones done by people for charity etc. one of my favourites is Fast Cakes by Mary berry but although i have a big box of recipe books and copy more out of magazines i always seem to cook the same things!

Mr_Proctalgia

I have just found this on-line resource for FREE cookery books, there appears to be some interesting stuff on it.

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/loccs/tx

Chipps

My most used cookbooks are:
More with Less (as mentioned before here)
Learn to Cook by Marguerite Patten (that one dates originally from the 1950s, but I bought mine new just before I got married - 1981)

powie69

The Student Grub Guide by Alastair Williams is my most used cookbook. Brilliant for basic ideas and recipes

ambergold

My favourite cookbook has to be Delia Smiths Complete illustrated cookery course but my copy is starting to look tatty. Does anybody know if its still in print?

Downsizing__for_sanity

I have to rise to Delia's defence as well!

I don't find her any more expensive than anyone else, but I do insist on free range eggs whatever recipe, from an animal welfare point of view as well as health.

I'm no food snob, and I don't think Delia is either - one of the good things about her books is that she gives you ideas for using cheap cuts of meat which aren't very fashionable. Try her Steak and Kidney pie for example. I made it with mushrooms for a Burns' Supper party. Double the recipe fed ten on the night and two of us for legftovers, and everyone wanted the recipe!

DFS

HopeElizzy

:hello: The cookery book most used in our house over the last year is Jeanette Orrey's The Dinner Lady. She is the dinnerlady who started campaigning for better food for children in schools before Jamie Oliver had even thought about it. There are alot of good basic recipes in it and my 2 little ones (3.5yo and 1.5yo) haven't turned away anything I've cooked from this book yet! Their favourites are Chilli Con Carne, Sausage Casserole, and they love fruit crumble.
:embarasse Quite embarrasing but I've just had a look at my bookshelves and there are 58 cookery books on it ranging from Rick Stein's Seafood Lovers' Guide, through Sophie Grigson's Eat Your Greens to Annabel Karmel's Baby & Toddler Meal Planner. I shouldn't be short of an idea for dinner then! :laugh:

moggins

HopeElizzy wrote:

:hello: :embarasse Quite embarrasing but I've just had a look at my bookshelves and there are 58 cookery books on it ranging from Rick Stein's Seafood Lovers' Guide, through Sophie Grigson's Eat Your Greens to Annabel Karmel's Baby & Toddler Meal Planner. I shouldn't be short of an idea for dinner then! :laugh:

Don't be embarrassed at that, I have 107

lucym

For recipes I mostly use Good Housekeeping, The Dairy Cookbook, various Elizabeth David and my very battered looking scrap book.

For reading my favourites are The Commune Cookbook (Crescent Dragonwagon) and An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (Elizabeth David).