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I am looking to buy some, preferably with pictures ( I do love to see what I am going to eat).

I would also be interested in recipes for hand mixers. ( can't find much on the web for looking).

I don't really enjoy cooking Susan , but i do have a small cookbook from the early 1950s from Bero flour and it is great for cakes and biscuits and deserts...very simple and economical...none of this '6 eggs' lark :)

I am looking to buy some, preferably with pictures ( I do love to see what I am going to eat).

I would also be interested for recipes for hand mixers. ( can't find much on the web for looking).

Lol Rose...we have that too. It was in My Oh's Mother's effects when she passed away.

cookbooks???? the only one i own, seppt for me pizza menus is "the vodka cook book" my sil, bought me it, she obviously doesnt know me that well, because id never waste good vodka in cooking!!! lol

my mam has an old bero book there recipies are delicious x

I have it sitting here beside me -- had to email the recipe for curry powder to my BFF so she could get another batch made up for my late Xmas prezzie. I'm not into grinding things, myself.

The New Indian Cooking Course.

Healthy Indian cooking -- veg oil, no ghee, and like that. Really good for you and delicious. Gorgeous pictures, step by step (if sometimes complicated) instructions. But you can simplify them. You can make chicken saag with tinned tomatoes and frozen spinach and some spices, without following the complete course of directions laid down there. ;) And they're nowhere near as complicated as "authentic" recipes anyhow.

But it's out of print, I believe. I got it remaindered. And I think that's not what you're after, heh.

... Yikes, amazon.com does show it available -- $50 new (I paid $10!) but $10 used. And amazon.co.uk has 3 used from £12.35 -- pricey, but if you like Indian cookery, it's the best I've run into.

Anyhow. The Joy of Cooking.

For basic recipes in the hundreds, can't be beat (although of course it leans to the US in its sources). I switched to its Yorkshire pudding recipe the last time I made it, and No.1 declared it the best I'd ever made.

And the brownies I made him for Valentine -- I didn't think I was capable of producing such a supremely divine object of bakery. Unbelievably perfect and delicious. Want the recipe? ;)

I like the supermarket cookbooks. We get a couple here - one called Superfood Ideas and the other Recipes. They are generally quick and easy and don't use too many fancy ingredients.

Sue xx

Susan - think it depends what country you in and what kind of cooking you want to do?

Not really Lady In Red......cooking is cooking :-)))


Ta Janey would appreciate it.

I think Amazon.co.uk does most books from abroad.

What I am looking for are books that have many recipes that one would use and not just a couple and the rest being too high falootin :-)))

Names perleese Suemaid....Tescos here used to do brilliant cook-books....I bought one....gave it to my daughter , thinking that I would get another when next in there......they went and changed their book intake...... No more cookbooks...just Mills and Boon type stuff...... Oh woe is me! ( but that is another story)

Susan - yes cooking may be cooking but I have mistakenly bought a couple of cookbooks that turned out to be Australian (produced by international women's magazine) and they call for ingredients that either we can't get in UK or just simply call by different names

The Farmhouse Kitchen.

It's one from the daytime TV series in the 80s. My original copy fell apart, but I found a new on on Ebay, so I'm thrilled to bits. I've used dozens of recipes from it.

There's one on Amazon now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Farmhouse-Kitchen-Cook-Book/dp/0004112563


EDIT: Unfortunately, it doesn't have pictures...sorry

What's a cookbook? lol

That's very true about ingredients -- also measurements. I have some Brit cookbooks that measure things by weight. What, I'm supposed to have kitchen scales? ;)

What I would do, S#, is go to a big bookstore and spend an hour in the cookbook section. There are loads and loads of ones like my Indian -- large format, not too thick, full of pictures. I have a pasta cookbook much the same, only softcover. About 250 pages, the books are maybe 12" by 15" and an inch thick -- it sounds unwieldy, but it's actually a lot easier to work with than a smaller thicker thing. My rather old Joy of Cooking is more like 8x10 and over two inches thick - smaller print, no pictures, not nearly as easy to refer back and forth to. Or as much fun to browse.

And definitely check out remainder tables in bookstores. There are often things just like that going cheap.

Just see what catches your fancy! An exotic one, a basic family-dinner one, a pasta one, a baking one. You said you wanted to buy "some" cookbooks. ;) You're more likely to try the recipes if the dishes look kind of special and don't all run into each other and look the same, the way they tend to do in all-purpose cookbooks. You know, 20 pages with fifty-seven ways to cook chicken and you can't tell half of them apart ...

It's the brownie recipe you want? I'll try to remember to bring it over tomorrow. I'm drooling just thinking about it.

I LOVE KIDS COOK BOOKS

BUT I DO HAVE ONE CALLED
I LIKE CALLED
THE NOSTALGIC COOK BOOK
BUT NO PICTURES

Me too Gwen...I have a few...they are so simple yet good looking if you know what I mean.

I have American measurement cup thingies so they are not a problem.

Ta TW...will look it up


Can't explain Michelle....I don't know of one for dog food lol

Susan# - the brownie recipe - I stuck up a thread

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1205934

because everybody deserves these divine morsels. ;)

The Joy of Cooking does have its occasional uses!

Is it on the same theme as 'The Joy of Sex' - lots of pics to explain, ha, ha!!

Could have its occasional uses, too :-)

Nah, that's the problem with it. ;)

Actually, come to think of it, it is rather like -- little line drawings of things here and there.

Page 420 does have sketches illustrating the instructions for trussing a chicken ...

;)


That is where The Joy of Sex got its name though! The Joy of Cooking is kind of the gold standard cookbook in the US, so it was the obvious choice for a complete guide to ... anything ...

I used to have a copy of 'The Joy of Sex', but it disappeared when we moved. I loved those line drawings and the bloke in it was quite dishy - really 70's look and hairstyle and a good 6-pack - in fact, being an artist, I got more pleasure out of looking at the drawings than the text if I'm honest. I'm a bit like that with cook books - I look at the pics and think I can do it, but I can't! Answer to the flour question on your other thread, please. All purpose - is that plain or self raising?

I'm pig sick I lost that book - it's probably a collectors' item now!