Have you got the 'old' GoodHousekeeping Cookery Book?

shetitasatic

I've got the 1976 edition and it's got N** N*** in, but I've never tried them - will have to now!!
I used to work in a Public Library and i got my copy for free because someone (or thing!) had chewed the corner of the cover - the photos must have been too realistic!!

achtunglady

I think mine is the 1976 or 1977 edition, got it for £3 in a second hand shop and the recipe is on page 424.

This book together with Delias How To Cook are my favourites, foolproof and easy with no fancy faffing around!!

Seakay

I've got the 1956 reprint of the 1952 edition -!!!!!! minstrel cakes included but not nig nog cakes. I'm really facinated to know what edition they were in - can the OP remember?

Kazonline

My most loved cookbook is my GHK cookbook - had around 1989 and it's been in pieces for years (sign of a good cookbook). I'd love to replace it, but it's one of those things where anything other than 'that' edition just won't do.
Just seeing the first post made me smile,
Kaz x

DonnaP

Hi

I have a reprint of the 1948 version, left to me by my nan. I use it all the time. As another post has said, the recipes are simple with no messing about.

There are no nig nogs or minstrels in this version!!

Donna

sandieb

I have the 1972 edition and the recipe for Nig Nogs is on page 356.
This GHK book is brilliant. Mine is in bits, brown at the edges and ALWAYS used. I got it free when I took out a year's subscription to the magazine. Price marked on it is £4.00.

Nailsea

It's in my mother's 1952 edition.

JP08

Got quite a few books from the '30s on the Ideal Homekeeper, Good Housekeeping, etc theme.

They often cover the whole gamut of housekeeping, from recipes to make and mend to DIY to pet keeping. Sometimes the categories cross. The best I've found is in the pet care section on guinea pigs - where the last paragraph reads "In taste they are rather like rabbit, but due to their small size are best opened out flat and fried with bacon".
:drool: