recipe book recommendations please

The_Biff

Any of the Good Housekeeping step by step books are great. Plenty on ebay, in charity shops etc. All the GH cook books are good.

mah_jong

Oh dear...gulp...will have to confess......that most of my recent recipes have come from.......





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Squeakys indexes rule !!!!!

Sarahsaver

I have a whole shelf full of favourites. I bought recipe books as a student as the things i liked to read about were too expensive to cook. I read these recipes instead of eating them. (violins pleeeze...) I have Leith's bible, always handy if you need to completely debone a chicken or cook something else obscure. Other faves are Nigella's how to eat, Jamie Oliver Naked chef, Rick stein's big book, a HUGE Madhur jaffrey book of all her recipes, larousse gastronomique and a copy of escoffier just cos its so posh. I also love a couple of French elle cuisine books I bought for 50p years ago, as they tell you how to cook loads of game - hare, pigeon, doves, brains, cassoulet, pigs' feet. Who needs to watch hannibal...sssslurp! Pass the chianti;)

catznine

The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, I am on my 3rd as I use it so much I wear it out!

My son bought me Nigella Bites recently and I have enjoyed several of those recipes.

Any of the Shirley Goode books and The Dairy cookbook are also in regular use.

Ted_Hutchinson

My most used cookery book is
The Cranks Recipe Book ISBN: 0586060901
Closely followed byEntertaining with Cranks ISBN: 0752825798
I'm not a vegetarian but the meals in these recipes are all worth cooking/eating and tend not to be the pretend meat variety.

catznine

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

My most used cookery book is
The Cranks Recipe Book ISBN: 0586060901
Closely followed byEntertaining with Cranks ISBN: 0752825798
I'm not a vegetarian but the meals in these recipes are all worth cooking/eating and tend not to be the pretend meat variety.

I have that one Ted and can recommend the recipe for making yogurt, it turns out right each time. There are loads of other recipes in there that I want to try like the date and oat slices.

Chipps

Just before I got married (1981) I bought "Learning to Cook" by Marguerite Patten. It's a small paperback, very basic, and was originally published in the 1950s & not much, if at all, updated in the ensuing 30 years. It gives basic recipes, and arranges them by month. ie it gives a breakfast, lunch or supper, & dinner recipe for the 1st, 2nd & 3rd day of each month. It tells you what is seasonal, what to do if things go wrong, & how to use up leftovers! It even teaches you how to cook toast, boil an egg & make a cup of tea!

nicki_2

I use The Readers Digest Cookery Year (borrow from my mum but I can't get a decent copy anywhere atm), Look and Cook (given to me when I was in primary school), ASDA magazine, here and my own recipe book which I am slowly compiling from magazine/here recipes

apple_mint

My most used recipe books are the notebooks I'm compiling from the web (mostly from here ). I use a 49p A5 spriral bound notebook from tesco's ...I'm on my second one and I'm only putting down those I know I will try out!

I also pick up books from car boots. It's great, all those people who think that they don't need to cook anymore because they can buy ready made :rolleyes:.

Recently I've bought:

Readers Digest, Food from your Garden
Yorkshire Women's Institute Book of Recipes (my mum had this book in the late 60's)
Mary Berry's Complete Cookery Book
The Resouceful Cook.

I never pay more than a pound for my recipe books and they keep me in happy reading for hours!

I'm just waiting for the postman to deliver my Be-Ro cook book .....

Galtizz

THIS has to be my favorite cookery book.

The instructions are really simple and easy to follow, the ingredients are usually already in your store cupboard and, if you get stuck you can ask the chef about it and usually get a reply within the hour :T