Favourite recipe books

prettypennies

Falling Cloudberries - By Tessa Kiros - Only £4.99 from The Book People, bargain. I love her recipe for Patitsio.

How to Eat - Nigella, a good allrounder.

The Dinner Lady Cookbook, a good storecupboard cookbook.

Walkerswood Caribbean Kitchen - Vrgina Burke

Tapas - Adrian Lissen. The green bean tapa in this book is one of my favourite snacks off all time.

Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen - Osso Bucco, yummy!

vfairbrass

Mary Berry 'Fast Cakes'
Rose Elliott - 'Your very good health' and all her vegetarian books.
Farmers Weekly 'Farmouse Fare'
Georgina Horley ' Good food on a budget'
Rubinstein and Bush 'Penguin Freezer Cookbook'
Chrissie Taylor ' Magic of the microwave' - good for short cuts
Good Housekeeping ' Cookery Book' - for when you can't remember how to make meringues etc.

Beryl Wood ' Let's preserve it'
Women's Institute ' Home made wines, syrups and cordials'
are brought out at this time of year when there's a blackberry glut

and another current favourite - every recipe is a real winner - Sainsbury's 'Home Baking'. Only £3.99 and is packed with great ideas.

A source that I have been using more than anything else recently since a posting on this site over Christmas is a loose leaf folder that I have made up of printouts of the recipes in Shirley Goode's blog http://shirleygoode.blogspot.com/
Not really a book but I refer to it more than any book.

As you can tell from this list I am not really up on modern TV chefs
Valerie

Quasar

I have found three very old books, - written at a time when there were no blenders, microwaves, etc etc. These are now my favourites and are as follows:-

A Selection Of Proved Recipes For Use With Gas Cookers - by author unknown (name defaced) first published in 1927. Some interesting recipes, including two on how to cook a sheep's head! :eek:

Joy Of Cooking - by Irma S.Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker - first published in 1931. An American book packed with recipes, many of which are tasty sandwiches.

The Constance Spry Cookery Book - by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume - first published in 1956. This is by far the best of them, because it is a proper cookery course, teaching all the basics of general kitchen practice, and even how to make bread, flambés etc. It's also in pristine condition, while the others have the covers missing and are defaced in parts.

I've already cooked a great boeuf bourguignon from the third book. It was GOOD :drool:

vfairbrass

Quasar wrote: »

A Selection Of Proved Recipes For Use With Gas Cookers - by author unknown (name defaced) first published in 1927. Some interesting recipes, including two on how to cook a sheep's head! :eek:

I think this is the Radiation Cookbook, published originally by Radiation Group Sales in Birmingham in 1927. It was reprinted many times and you can still get copies on the second hand market for a couple of pounds. Abebooks have several copies :
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=selection+of+proved+recipes&sortby=3&sts=t&x=15&y=13

Valerie

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Tana Ramsays Family Cookbook
China Modern - Ching-He huang
Momma Cherrie's Soul in a bowl cookbook
Quick & easy tapas - Silvana Franco
Home cook - Alastair Hendy

I want a Nigella book but they hold their price so well that they're still £12-15 on amazon

sillyvixen

My fav recipe books
Cas Clarke grub on a grant, vegetarian grub on a grant and mean beans (i have had and used these books since my student days.
The covent garden soup recipe book

My newest book cost 50p at a charity shop and is Rose Elliotts Vegetarian barbeques and grills. it looks as if it has never been used:D. i'm looking forward to getting my barbeque out (incidently my bbq was free as my parents noticed last year on a camping site they were staying on, that many people who were going home had bought bbqs from the camp shop but couldn't be bothered to lug them home again. on a friday evening the area next to the bins had a large collection of nearly new bbq's. so they collected me 2 different ones (green veggie and red meat) a bit of elbow grease and good as new.:j:j

noonesperfect

My faves are the Be-ro recipe book for baking as well as Muffins:Fast and Fantastic by Susan Reimer

The Farmhouse Kitchen Books I & II plus cooking for 1 or 2.

The 90's version Dairy Cook Book

The Times cookery book.

I often cut recipes out I find in magazines but don't often get around to making them!!

boo81

I thought I was weird loving cookbooks as I do but I see im not the only one, the most useful ones for me are:

The ultimate student cookbook-pretty sure not still produced

Nigella Lawson-feast and how to be a domestic godess

Australian Womens Weekly - wicked indulgences, fast soup, saucery and muffins editions

Ive got plenty of others but I find these I come back to time and time again and I know the recipes will work. Tessa Kiros has 2 beautiful books which I frequently drool over, I find many books sound lovely but the recipes are not practical to make for some reason.

thriftlady_2

boo81 wrote: »

I thought I was weird loving cookbooks as I do but I see im not the only one
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You certainly aren't

Another one of my favourites for inspiration is The New English Kitchen by Rose Prince. it's been mentioned before by me and others. It's brilliant for showing you how to get the most out of food by stretching expensive ingredients and using storecupboard stuff creativley.

I know what you mean about Tessa Kiros' books btw, but I think there's a place for cookbooks which fill you with enthusiasm for cooking and food.

belfastgirl23

Rose Elliot's complete vegetarian cookbook is the only cookery book that always lives in my kitchen. I got it for my 21st birthday (nearly 20 yrs ago!!) and it is still the first book I reach for when I'm looking for advice or inspiration. She is such a clear writer that it's also perfect for how-to stuff that I forget when I haven't done it for a while. It's got all the basics, how to boil an egg or make pancakes, as well as a whole range of classic veggie dishes like lasagna, risotto etc. Photos look very outdated now is the only problem with it.

Jamie's Italy is the other constant presence at the minute. His risotto recipe is gorgeous and his pizzas are staple dishes in our house.

Nigella bites would live there too if I could afford the calories but alas I only look at it when I'm cooking for other people