recipe book recommendations please

catznine

greenlogo wrote:

and my Mum's 1971 GHI cookbook with no covers and half a contents page for the basics - I "borrowed" it when I left home aged 17 and I've been using it to tell me how long to cook carrots &c for ever since!

I've still got my Mums old GH cookbook as well, it too has no covers and some pages missing, must go back to the early 50's! but it was well used and brings back some lovely memories of my Mum and her baking.

Squidgy

oh, nigella definately! I've got the full set! You have to try snickerdoodles they are the best.

When I was younger I used to love reading the dairy diary it was excellent!

competitionscafe

For a recipe with a difference, how about the worlds largest Scotch egg!

http://www.blogjam.com/2005/05/15/scotch-ostrich-egg/

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domestic_goddess_wanabee

I bought an Asda cookery book a few months ago and its really great - it cost
about £3.00 and the recipes were all submitted by customers and staff. I think its called family favourites (left it at a friends house last week!). All the recipes use everyday ingredients, I've tried quite a few and all have been succesful.
I can particularly recommend Italian meatballs in tomato sauce!

Hunnymonster

Slow Cooking Properly Explained (been using it since I was a student - the Beef in BBQ sauce is a favourite, as is the chocolate cake) - just bought a new copy as the old one was probably a health hazard.

Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook is the second reserve for non-slow cooking..... although a copy of the Dairy Book of Home Cookery would be welcome as I know I can't pinch my mum's copy from 1968

competitionscafe

I made a listmania list of my top 10 favourite cookbooks and a few others:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-10-favourite-cookbooks-how-to-cook-delicious-food/lm/R3APZD5BG7JZ9I/

newleaf

moggins wrote: »

The original Paupers Cookbook is my all time favourite and I now have two copies as I thought I'd lost mine and managed to get another on e-bay, then I found my old one down the back of the sofa

I have over 80 cookbooks and this is still my all time favourite.

Same here! I taught myself to cook using that book, and still refer to it more often than any other in my huge collection

scotgirl

I am a fan of Delias Collection - it gives me all the basics and has basically taught me how to cook!

buxtonrabbitgreen

I too have loads of cookbooks but my favourites ar The Readers Digest Cookery Year and Mageurrite patten Everyday cookery. There is not much i want to know how to cook that is not in one or other of them. Though the everday cookery is a bit disgusting, ie the page for the christmas cake (never fails) has quite a lot of christmas cake stuck to it, and no index left.

morganb

I used to buy loads of cookery books but I have to say that my subscription to Delicious magazine (Courtesy of tesco clubcard vouchers), https://www.bbc.co.uk/recipes and this site are the best source of recipes for me now. Magazines and websites are just so much more up to date and use new products. I rarely look at a cookbook now, unless it is to make a special cake, etc.