recipe book recommendations please

Hawthorn

Search no more! There are TONS of recipes on this site. Tried and tested, and frugal. Make your own cookbook from here

moanymoany

There are also thousands of websites to help. I don't know of books that give all this info. It would be necessary to get two or three.

Pink.

Hi mkbswimstar,

There's an earlier thread with other Old Stylers cookery book recommendations so I've added your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

There are a number of threads on Old Style books where people have recommended their favourites. Most of those threads are collected here in:

The Complete Old Style Book Collection

Pink

HopeElizzy

I wonder if anyone could help........?
While channel hopping last week I saw a five minute article with a lady that uses up all her food leftovers and had written a book. I'm sure she was in her 80's and has always used everything up - making something out of not much!
Does anyone have a clue who I'm talking about or what her book is called?
TIA

Edit: Just remembered it was on that Sunday morning programme on BBC1 with Colin Jackson presenting......

thriftlady_2

HopeElizzy wrote: »

I wonder if anyone could help........?
While channel hopping last week I saw a five minute article with a lady that uses up all her food leftovers and had written a book. I'm sure she was in her 80's and has always used everything up - making something out of not much!
Does anyone have a clue who I'm talking about or what her book is called?
TIA

Edit: Just remembered it was on that Sunday morning programme on BBC1 with Colin Jackson presenting......

Didn't see it but could it possibly have been Shirley Goode?

Pitlanepiglet

I may have said this before....but I bought a copy of Marguerite Patton's complete cooking from a second hand bookshop for four quid and it's fantastic. It really does have EVERYTHING in it, including things that I'd never thought about cooking for myself.

I then bought Mary Berry's "big" book (might also be called complete) from a charity book shop for a similar amount and it's also fantastic.

It seems to me that the Jamie/Rick Stein/Hugh FW books give you some lovely "different" recipes but the Complete and Basic books from Marguerite Patton/Mary Berry/Delia really do provide a great basis for anything that you might want to make and will help with basic techniques.

geordie_joe

This one looks good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spam-Cookbook-Marguerite-Patten/dp/0600603431/ref=pd_ts_b_7?ie=UTF8&s=books

Bargain_Rzl

mkbswimstar wrote: »

Hi,
I have searched through amazon this am in search of a good cookbook that will teach me how to bulk out recipes, use/store leftovers, cook batches and freeze them, and still remain fairly simple.

Re: the bulking out, I find the new Jamie's Ministry of Food book is great for assuming you want to bulk things up. I've tried several of the mince recipes and they all have finely chopped carrot, celery etc in with the mince (and they taste fabulous!)

I would recommend it on other criteria, too. I've found the recipes really appetising and have used it loads.

The only recipe I've done from that book which hasn't been entirely successful was the macaroni cheese, which was a bit tasteless. But after stirring in a big tablespoonful of Dijon mustard it was yummy.

julieq

A few of my favourites:

You can get reproductions of the first edition of Mrs Beeton around and about. They're great for ideas, many of the recipes are surprisingly unstodgy, and there's good stuff about sauces, stuffing, and so on. Also has very good advice on how to treat your domestics: I thoroughly recommend the section on the cold shouldering of the husband in the event of an embroglio with the lower scullery maid.

Probably the biggest cliche in the world of cookery books is Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cookery. But despite it being namechecked by anyone and everyone who talks about food writing, it's just a marvellous book to read as a book, and truly revolutionary in its time.

All the same for actual French day to day cooking I use a little paperback, la Cuisine de Mapie, which is very practical, albeit written in French (after a few absinthes you hardly notice).

And from the days when cooking programme film crew could actually hold the camera still and in focus for 2 seconds without jumping around like a deranged 2 year old rhesus monkey with ADHT, you really can't beat Fanny Craddock's Coping with Christmas, absolutely the best Christmas cookbook bar none. NO-ONE deals with a turkey with the cool imperious disdain of la Craddock (when you've finished cackling at the video do look for the book, it's marvellous).

vegankris

I love Sarah Kramer's vegan recipe books- she even has chapters at the back on how to make your own toiletries and household cleaners!