Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
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*Cookery Books - Classics and Recommendations
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
By the way...I love this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898151899/wwwlink-software-21/026-6196668-1818033
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898151899/wwwlink-software-21/026-6196668-1818033
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
loved this review of 'white trash cooking'.
cocktail-kiki from London said:
edit: and this one!
A reader from Horsford said:
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
That's a horrible review....there are some fantastic recipes in there.......and hilarious ones too...here's one
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AUNT ROSIE DEATON'S ALL-AMERICAN SLUM-GULLION
Cook some elbow macaroni - plenty. Brown minced onion (stronger the better), hamburger and/or bacon in a skillet. Add 1 can of whole Delmonte tomatoes, salt, pepper and all the macaroni you got. Simmer til you can't stand it anymore, then take it off the fire and dive in. This is especially good when you're in a hurry-up day, like when there's a funeral, an auction or a flag-burning at the Legion Hall.
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AUNT ROSIE DEATON'S ALL-AMERICAN SLUM-GULLION
Cook some elbow macaroni - plenty. Brown minced onion (stronger the better), hamburger and/or bacon in a skillet. Add 1 can of whole Delmonte tomatoes, salt, pepper and all the macaroni you got. Simmer til you can't stand it anymore, then take it off the fire and dive in. This is especially good when you're in a hurry-up day, like when there's a funeral, an auction or a flag-burning at the Legion Hall.
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Here's some more;
BLACKBERRY ACID
I gallon blackberries, unwashed; 1 oz. tartaric acid; sugar.
Put berries in a stone crock, cover with water and add acid. Let stand for 24 hours, then strain. To each pint of liquid add a pound of sugar. Boil fro 20 minutes. Bottle hot, and keep in a cool dry place. Serve ice cold, diluted with water, or else over crushed ice. If you're lucky it'll ferment.
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST TEA CAKES
1 cup butter; 1 cup powdered sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla; dash of salt; 2½ cups flour; ½-1 cup chopped nuts
Cream butter sugar vanilla and salt;then stir in flour and nuts. Roll into balls place on sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Roll in powdered sugar while warm and again when cool. "If you make a mistake and use 1 cup of flour instead of 2½, they'll come out like thin wafers. They'll be just as delicious but won't make enough for Christmas" says Mrs Ruby Henley of Social Circle, Georgia.
BLACKBERRY ACID
I gallon blackberries, unwashed; 1 oz. tartaric acid; sugar.
Put berries in a stone crock, cover with water and add acid. Let stand for 24 hours, then strain. To each pint of liquid add a pound of sugar. Boil fro 20 minutes. Bottle hot, and keep in a cool dry place. Serve ice cold, diluted with water, or else over crushed ice. If you're lucky it'll ferment.
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST TEA CAKES
1 cup butter; 1 cup powdered sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla; dash of salt; 2½ cups flour; ½-1 cup chopped nuts
Cream butter sugar vanilla and salt;then stir in flour and nuts. Roll into balls place on sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Roll in powdered sugar while warm and again when cool. "If you make a mistake and use 1 cup of flour instead of 2½, they'll come out like thin wafers. They'll be just as delicious but won't make enough for Christmas" says Mrs Ruby Henley of Social Circle, Georgia.
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls stuff is excellent, really well thought through.
Nigel Slater too.
Also, <shameless plug alert> (I did all the photos for it, so spent a week tasting all the recipies)
Just One Pot by Lyndsey Bareham to be published next month is very good - ( & I do a lot of cookery books & don't recomend many!) .
As the title sugests lots of yummy cassaroley rich, earthy type stuff , great for Autumn.
Nigel Slater too.
Also, <shameless plug alert> (I did all the photos for it, so spent a week tasting all the recipies)
Just One Pot by Lyndsey Bareham to be published next month is very good - ( & I do a lot of cookery books & don't recomend many!) .
As the title sugests lots of yummy cassaroley rich, earthy type stuff , great for Autumn.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I've done a couple of Lyndsey Bareham recipes...she's good......I think she does a column in the Standard, which is why I've only come across a couple of her recipes so far....not a paper I buy. Goes on and on about poor beleagured car drivers too much....
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
What does 'West London' mean? I was born in Hammersmiff I'll 'ave you know, just orft the Gold'awk Road.....no seriously, what do you mean?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
She's not doing her column in the Standard any more, unfortunately. I often used to cut them out and put them in my recipe scrap book. Now they've got someone far more glamorous, but the recipes don't look as good. I've got a great little paperback of her's called Supper Won't Take Long.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
You mean Chelsington 
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
back ON-Topic, now that civil war in W London has presumably abated - can anyone recommend for me a good, no-nonsense, dishes-that-won't-break-the-bank-in-milan pasta cook book? and one for rice dishes?
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
the australian women's weekly home library of cookbooks - pasta...Red Jezza said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...415/sr=1-23/ref=sr_1_0_23/026-3339051-5937255
i've got loads of these, you used to be able to buy them in morley's though not sure if they still sell them. the bigger bookshops do. they're usually just under a fiver but the pasta one is £2.50 on special.
loads of recipes, really simple instructions and lots of pictures. they're an aussie institution!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I'd agree with that. When I worked with kids their art activity book was regarded as the dingo's bollocks!
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
well - most Aussies I know tend to know their onions when it comes to pasta. rriiight - morley's here we come.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
So, ern, what did you end up getting in the way of Cookery books? I've been wondering.....Got to grips with the new kitchen yet?
Oh, and here's an Eric Idle song for you.....
Communist Cooking
Whenever ze bourgeois get you down
And revisionism's looking blue
Get into ze kitchen get out your pans
And cook a little dish or two
Whenever ze decline of ze capitalist system
Seems to be coming true
Get into your kitchen get out your pans
And cook a little dish or two
Here's our recipe if you want to be free
The future lies in your hands
Don't go on bitchin'
Get into the kitchen
And rattle, rattle, rattle zem pots and pans
Whenever you've shot all ze people to shoot
And you've shot ze firing squad too
Get into ze kitchen get out your pans
And shoot a little dish or two
Shoot one for me Joe!
And shoot a little dish or two
Make mine a bourgeois!
And shoot a little dish or two
two
toodle-oo
Oh, and here's an Eric Idle song for you.....
Communist Cooking
Whenever ze bourgeois get you down
And revisionism's looking blue
Get into ze kitchen get out your pans
And cook a little dish or two
Whenever ze decline of ze capitalist system
Seems to be coming true
Get into your kitchen get out your pans
And cook a little dish or two
Here's our recipe if you want to be free
The future lies in your hands
Don't go on bitchin'
Get into the kitchen
And rattle, rattle, rattle zem pots and pans
Whenever you've shot all ze people to shoot
And you've shot ze firing squad too
Get into ze kitchen get out your pans
And shoot a little dish or two
Shoot one for me Joe!
And shoot a little dish or two
Make mine a bourgeois!
And shoot a little dish or two
two
toodle-oo
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
an old alexei sayle song snippet sprung to mind the other day..."you've got yer garibaldis, yer bour-bon creams... revolutionary biscuits of europe, rise up out of your boxes..." - sung whilst dressed as mussolini.
I got Slater's 'Appetite', 'Real Fast Food', Moro, David's 'French Provincial Cooking', Hugh's 'Meat Book', 'Flash Floyd' and a little bargain in the hardback 'Recipes from Le Manoir' by Blanc for £3.50 at a car booter!
Slater is the best writer for me
Slater is the best writer for me
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I like Antionio Carluccio for Italian.
If you really need a good recipie I recommend starting a thread about whatever you're craving. Works a treat. I was fantisising about a summer pudding a few months ago.....a short thread later Mrs Magpie's delivered a far better recipie than Delia Bloody Smith who's recipie I tried the second time.
If you really need a good recipie I recommend starting a thread about whatever you're craving. Works a treat. I was fantisising about a summer pudding a few months ago.....a short thread later Mrs Magpie's delivered a far better recipie than Delia Bloody Smith who's recipie I tried the second time.
fractionMan
Custom Title
I quite like the bay tables cookbook.
It's got plenty of good ol' southern cooking along with a dose of creole. It's also got loads of info and picture of mobile too.
(one of the recipies is from my family, so I might be biased)
It's got plenty of good ol' southern cooking along with a dose of creole. It's also got loads of info and picture of mobile too.
(one of the recipies is from my family, so I might be biased)
Slater's a god, though the missus takes serious exception to some of his lardier offerings. Got to get that meat book, just my kind of thing.
I've got the larrouse and love it, but it's very much *not* for beginners. It's recipies are writtern in a very concise style, so if you lack confidence or don't know basic techniques it might not be a great choice. It's more a food encyclopedia, with recipes as an aside.
I don't think anyone's mentioned Costance Spry, which is essential if you have any intrest in trad British cooking.
I've got the larrouse and love it, but it's very much *not* for beginners. It's recipies are writtern in a very concise style, so if you lack confidence or don't know basic techniques it might not be a great choice. It's more a food encyclopedia, with recipes as an aside.
I don't think anyone's mentioned Costance Spry, which is essential if you have any intrest in trad British cooking.
fractionMan
Custom Title
Mrs Magpie said:By the way...I love this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898151899/wwwlink-software-21/026-6196668-1818033
Featuring the good old 'rack of spam', lurverly.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
some good choices already... here's a few more
The Sporting Wife - Barbara Hargreaves
later additons include the compleate angler
shedloads of game recipes, later editions include fish recipes
great stuff if you enjoy game and fish (which I do) tells you how to hang game and smoke fish, great for hunters, fishers and poachers
Secrets of the great french restaurants - Lousette Bertholle
chock full of fab recipes from michelin stared chefs in the best french restaurants. the recipes assume that you will have access to fresh food and even, in some, to dictate the manner of slaughter (e.g. take on cockrel, which must have been strangled) not for vegitarians
The Open Hand Cookbook; Great Chefs Cook for Festive Occasions -
complied by Stanley Eichelbaum
Pocket Books 1991
sixty-three of the most celebrated California chefs
share their favourite menus, these chefs really know what they're doing. Incredible recipes, emphasis on ethinic / fusion recipes & healthy eating Originally sold to raise money for people with AIDS. scarce
Dressed Vegetables a la Mode - Mrs De Salis few editions late 19th century Lovely little classic book, scarce, basically lots of vegetable recipes, at a glance they appear simple and unfussy, many but not all of them are French. lovely
Italian Cooking - Dorothy Daly
Spring Books undated 1959+
Fabulous recipes from Italy, simple, straightforward, sublime stuff, e.g.
risotto with brains, hare in sweet sour sauce, liver with artichokes + some
incredible fish and pasta recipes
could list a lot more.... this'll do for now
The Sporting Wife - Barbara Hargreaves
later additons include the compleate angler
shedloads of game recipes, later editions include fish recipes
great stuff if you enjoy game and fish (which I do) tells you how to hang game and smoke fish, great for hunters, fishers and poachers
Secrets of the great french restaurants - Lousette Bertholle
chock full of fab recipes from michelin stared chefs in the best french restaurants. the recipes assume that you will have access to fresh food and even, in some, to dictate the manner of slaughter (e.g. take on cockrel, which must have been strangled) not for vegitarians
The Open Hand Cookbook; Great Chefs Cook for Festive Occasions -
complied by Stanley Eichelbaum
Pocket Books 1991
sixty-three of the most celebrated California chefs
share their favourite menus, these chefs really know what they're doing. Incredible recipes, emphasis on ethinic / fusion recipes & healthy eating Originally sold to raise money for people with AIDS. scarce
Dressed Vegetables a la Mode - Mrs De Salis few editions late 19th century Lovely little classic book, scarce, basically lots of vegetable recipes, at a glance they appear simple and unfussy, many but not all of them are French. lovely
Italian Cooking - Dorothy Daly
Spring Books undated 1959+
Fabulous recipes from Italy, simple, straightforward, sublime stuff, e.g.
risotto with brains, hare in sweet sour sauce, liver with artichokes + some
incredible fish and pasta recipes
could list a lot more.... this'll do for now
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
The moosewood cookbook by Mollie Kazten. ( get the original one)
Top veggie recipes, its american so you have to grapple with cups of this and that but some of the most incredible food ever in this one.
My aunt bought it for my ma when we were younger and the food is just divine. Ill have to steal it next time Im over there ( she never uses it any more)
Ive just bought Jamies dinners. Its got some fab recipes for real world cooking. Nothing takes that long or is 'that' expensive to prepare and 'shock horror' So far the kids have eaten everything Ive cooked from it!
( these are the original what the hell is that, Im not eating that brigade( but nowhere near the brats in the programme standard)
I bought one of the Jamies cookbook series for my brther and will liberate that back to my kitchen ( hes a chef, he doesnt need it) next time I visit
Top veggie recipes, its american so you have to grapple with cups of this and that but some of the most incredible food ever in this one.
My aunt bought it for my ma when we were younger and the food is just divine. Ill have to steal it next time Im over there ( she never uses it any more)
Ive just bought Jamies dinners. Its got some fab recipes for real world cooking. Nothing takes that long or is 'that' expensive to prepare and 'shock horror' So far the kids have eaten everything Ive cooked from it!
( these are the original what the hell is that, Im not eating that brigade( but nowhere near the brats in the programme standard)I bought one of the Jamies cookbook series for my brther and will liberate that back to my kitchen ( hes a chef, he doesnt need it) next time I visit
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
What on earth was this thread doing languishing in the general forum? Moved and bumped....
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Amazingly, I don't think anyone has mentioned any of the following four:
Food in England by Dorothy Hartley (originally published 1954 reprinted 1996 and I think there is also a more recent reprint) - great for both recipes and the history of English cooking
The Essential of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcela Hazan
The Book of Jewish Food Claudia Roden
More Vegetarian Dinner Parties Leon Lewis (the guy who does the great veggie food stalls at various festivals)
Food in England by Dorothy Hartley (originally published 1954 reprinted 1996 and I think there is also a more recent reprint) - great for both recipes and the history of English cooking
The Essential of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcela Hazan
The Book of Jewish Food Claudia Roden
More Vegetarian Dinner Parties Leon Lewis (the guy who does the great veggie food stalls at various festivals)
