Old Style Cookbooks

poorly_scammo

Hiya,

I'm looking to buy a really good old fashioned frugal cookbook. As a kid I loved watching Farmhouse Kitchen and already have those books. What I'm looking for is an old fashioned frugal book which I can buy. I know that there's a wealth of info on here but I'd like to get hold of a cookbook.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Ta

Scammo

fairtrade

I recommend this one with recipes from the war years:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Well-Eat-Again-Collection-Recipes/dp/0753723417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389277442&sr=8-1&keywords=we%27ll+eat+again

for frugal food go to Shirley Goode's webpage or get a used copy of her book from the 80s:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shirley-Goode-Kitchen-BBC/dp/0563212004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389277562&sr=8-1&keywords=shirley+goode

Mrs_Bones

I've got a Delia Smith frugal food cookbook, mines the original one but I know she's updated it since.

gayleygoo

I have an older version of this one. It's not strictly frugal cooking, but many of the recipes are. There's a whole section on cooking offal (or "lucky dip animal parts" as I like to call them), pigs trotters, even a pig's head etc! Stuff that your butcher may well give you for free, or at least quite cheaply. Also, lots of recipes for bread, vegetables and potatoes.

(edited to say it's not a cheap book to buy new, but there are used copies from 52p!)

joedenise

I would also recommend Shirley Goode. I've got the Delia Frugal Food but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as Shirley's book.

Denise

lillibet_dripping

What about the Bero cookbook - lots of lovely pies, cakes, batters, pastries etc. etc. I use mine so often that it sits beside the range! (I bought mine last year from the Co-Op)

Maitane

I've got How to feed your whole family: A healthy, balanced diet with very little money by Gill Holcolmbe.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-feed-your-whole-family/dp/1905862156

As a mostly child free couple (my tiny little half sisters come over sometimes and they are an OSers dream! Favourite food: baked potato, beans and cheese and sausages as a treat.), we don't find it that great because it's quite family friendly but there's still some good ideas in it.

poorly_scammo

Maitane wrote: »

I've got How to feed your whole family: A healthy, balanced diet with very little money by Gill Holcolmbe.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-feed-your-whole-family/dp/1905862156

Thanks all so far.

I already have the Holcombe and don't rate it at all but thanks.

[Deleted User]

I still have the first cookery book I ever bought back in 1962 when I first got married it was called Cooking for two and cost me 2/6d (12.1/2p) mind you it was bought in woolworths so I guess its well out of print now,but if you have a shufti in a boot sale or CS you may find either the Bero cook book or the Dairy cookery book from the 1960s both very good and easy to follow.

superrhinos

Shirley Goode also has a blog which features some of her recipes:-

http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/

Callie22

I quite like Jocasta Innes' Pauper's Cookbook - although it's amusing that some of the stuff that was 'cheap' years ago is a bit of a luxury now! However you can get this quite cheaply on ebay.