Pauper's Cookbook

LizD_2

This book's been mentioned and sounds great. Is it any good for a vegetarian? Can the meat recipies be adapted with things like tofu and veggie mince?

moggins

I think there are quite a few good non meat meals in there. But I don't have the latest version, just the very first one and then the revised copy which I didn't think was as good.

thriftlady_2

As Moggins says there are some good meatless meals in the book, but, I don't think the meat recipes are generally the kind you can sub tofu/quorn for. They tend to be stews or offaly recipes. There are a lot of meat recipes, so if you are veggie it may not pay it's way as VFM

thriftmonster

However the New Paupers Cookbook has a veggie section as well as listing all the others that are veggie - but if you got a 2nd hand copy you would need to make sure it was the "New" one

LizD_2

Does the revised edition have that?

thriftlady_2

The revised edition (the one with the yellow cover, pub. Frances Lincoln) does have a veggie chapter in it, plus a pasta chapter and many other veggie recipes

The revised edition is like an amalgam of the original 'Pauper's Cookbook' and 'The New Pauper's Cookbook'

mardatha

Somebody on here recommended "the pauper's cookbook" by Jocasta Innes. I got it today and its absolutely fantastic, many thanks to all on this great forum !:D

jannyannie

I bought a really old copy from a bookshop years ago along with Delias first cookbook, I still use both

Pink.

Hi mardatha,

Glad you enjoyed the book. I've added your thread onto another one on the Pauper's Cookbook.

Pink

StressedSteph

oooh I have this book, also have "The Country Kitchen" by the same author (Jocasta Innes). I have just dug them out, I must have a read throgh for some inspiration. xx

nooney

I've just heard on Radio 4 that Jocasta Inness has died. I loved her book in the 70's it was a forerunner of meal planning and cheap meals in a cook book. (For me anyway) I just wish I still had the book. My favourite recipe was potato bacon and onion hotpot.
Anyone else remember this book and what are your favourite recipes from it?