Cookery Book Help Please

mardatha

I have a grand daughter aged 12 who loves to cook and bake. I'd like to get a cookery book to add to her xmas, maybe a baking one as well. Has anybody any suggestions as to simple plain basic cookery books with lots of pics?

Pink.

My [12 yr old] son has a fabulous oversized book which has wonderful illustrations, but I can't put my hand on it at the moment. I'll post it up when he gets home from school. He's had great fun from it and enjoyed both cooking and baking the recipes from it.

In the meantime these threads may help:

help me choose a good basic cookbook for 13 yr old boy

Cookbook for 10 year old, old style food

I'll add this thread to those later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

floss2

I would suggest something like Paul Hollywood's How to Bake, with pictures & showing the techniques?

Cheapskate

Anything published by Dorling Kindersley has straight-forward recipes, doesn't assume prior knowledge and has fantastic photos. I gave 2 young teenage boys in our family books by a young male cookery writer, Sam Stern. Aimed at male students, but I think they suit either gender.

HTH

krlyr

Another option could be to get her a scrap book and print and stick recipes off the internet in it. She can then add her own recipes to the blank pages. You could add in other info, e.g. converting cups to grams and vice versa for all the common ingredients, gas mark to celcius, some common substitute recipes (such as how to make your own buttermilk substitute with lemon juice & milk), general serving amounts (how much uncooked rice per person for example) and so on.
May be a bit more personal and she can put photos of her tried and tested stuff alongside the recipes to show off as well.

Need2bthrifty

As a teenager and getting started in cooking/baking I used the Be-ro cookbook.

At the moment the one I use most is Mary Berry's complete cookbook.

Pee

The place I wpould try looking is the Book People website, because they usually have very good prices.

Mary Berry does some amazing looking cakes, which is sometimes what young girls like to cook rather than main meals. (I am thinking that that is what my sister liked to cook.)

For main meals I don't think you can beat Jamie Oliver but I was a lot older than 12 when I started reading his books albeit a very novice cook, so I am not sure.

meg72

The Works have a really good (and cheap) selection of Cookery books athe moment, including ones especially for kids

mardatha

Wow loads of ideas there, many thanks everybody! Off to investigate now

mother_noah

The Usborne Begineers Cookbook is good . Lots of meal and baking recipes I bought it for my partner when he started work as a support worker , he had never done a lot of cooking and found it really useful .

mardatha

Just found that one on Amazon and like the look of it!