Recommend an Old Style Book?

competitionscafe

New English Kitchen: Changing the Way You Shop, Cook and Eat by Rose Prince.
http://www.britishfoodfortnight.co.uk/pdf/2005_Autumn_Sales_document.pdf

thriftlady_2

Chipps wrote:

:rotfl: Hee hee! Glad I'm not the only one ... my copy of the Complete Tightwad Gazette has wrinkled pages where is has got damp from being held over the bath. At least I haven't dropped it in yet

Me too,Chipps,my copy is looking very tatty.
Thanks to this thread I now own Just Like Mother Used To Make and the Shirley goode books.I can see they're going to be useful additions to my frugal library.
I also recommend More With Less Cookbook and Living More With Less by the same author.The Pauper's Cookbook(new edition,NB the index is very poor),We''ll Eat Again,The Victory Cookbook and The Postwar Kitchen all by Marguerite Patten.
I like The New English Kitchen too,as it promotes a way of stretching meat into several meals(though the meat she suggests you buy is not cheap).All the River Cottage books are worth getting,although not cheap themselves.
Other useful books are those Favourite Recipe Series books published by J Salmon that you find in c;ountry houses;Favourite Recipes From Devonshire/Somerset/Norfolk etc.They're usually only about £2.

amazon_spice

Thanks everyone. I love these kinds of books and now have a great long wish list to search for.

AB. :j

comping_cat

MSE_Martin wrote:

Yes just to update

Of course the Money Diet - 'Now Even More Savings' (don't u love publishers) is due out in December.

However we're now at the negotiating table over MoneySaving Old Style the Book for launch next year. It will be written based on this forum. The negotiating is as I will be donating all the money I'm paid to MoneySaving Kids, the charity - so i want to push for as much cash from the publisher as possible

martin

Excellent idea!!!!

sparklymessygirl

I was wondering if anyone had ever come across this book?

"The Servantless House" by Randal Phillips

The preface apparently reads "A curious and very interesting 'manual' on how to manage a household without servants, a must for british higher classes, used to servants managing their household before the Great War, as."not only has the task getting a maid and retaining her when found become hopeless for thousands of middle-class people."

- a relative of mine wrote it decades ago and I am curious to know if anyone has seen it? I guess my family must have fallen on hard times. No wonder I live in chaos! .

I may treat my mum to it one day (I've seen a couple of them available from vintage booksellers for approx £50 ! )

Sparkly

Rache_2

competitionscafe wrote:

New English Kitchen: Changing the Way You Shop, Cook and Eat by Rose Prince.
http://www.britishfoodfortnight.co.uk/pdf/2005_Autumn_Sales_document.pdf

I second this. It has revolutionised the way we eat. We had the most incredible boiled beef silverside for Sunday lunch which, for £10, is providing meals for most of this week. Beautifully written, too.

competitionscafe

The bookpeople have it [New English Kitchen] on offer at £7.99, they also have Jamie Olivers Jamies Italy book for £4.99 which is half what I paid for it and the cheapest I have seen it, plus can recommend 'the accidental vegetarian' which they have in the bookends section for £1.99.

https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=100&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&productId=16598

Free delivery code at: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=135726&highlight=bookpeople

Can also recommend the Hugh Fearnley Family Cookbook and Tamasin Day Lewis's Kitchen Bible, though I can't find either of these for less than £10.
(Try WH Smith for the latter @ £11.25?)

Mr_Proctalgia

I wish I were less impetuous, I've just paid double that from Amazon (used too) Damn damn and double damn!

Iguana

Georgina Horley Good Food on a Budget.

Seasonal recipes and what I call a 'readable' cookbook, not just recipes but hints and tips on planning ahead.

tiddles

I think, but I'm not certain, that Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Family Cookbook was only £7.99 in Waterstone's when I looked just over a week ago.