Cookery books

[AnnaB]

Which cookery books do you rate as the most comprehensive ones you own?

[wendy]

I have loads.
But most of the recipes I use now, come from the leaflets I got with my organic boxes or on the new boxes I get's website
www.able-cole.co.uk
I have also got some from the back of the packet the veg come in from the supermarket, when I bought them from there.
Wendy

[Mo]

Most of what I cook now is either in my head, or on sheets of writing paper stuck in the back of my Woman's Own cook book. This is a nice book that came in a cardboard cover that now has lots of bits of paper and booklets stuffed into it (Bird's Custard recipes, Carnation milk recipes etc.).
At school we had a little A5 size booklet (I think it was called the Essex cookbook, it's lost it's cover now) that covered most things then Woman's Own had this special offer just as I was leaving home, so it was given to me, and I look things up in that if I want to do anything new but I tend not to.

[heebiejeebie]

I don't know about comprehensive, but my fave is Elizabeth David - Provincial French Cooking (or summat)
Very adaptable recipes!

[melons]

I'm quite faithful to cranks, my book can testify to that
I swop alot of recipes with people, so have bits of screwed up paper with things written in short hand at the time, knowing exactly what i meant in the shorthand version, to end up not having a clue what it all means later on when i read it

[Mo]

That's like the notes I write at dances, someone teaches a dance I like, so I jot it down, and puzzle over it later.

[wendy]

Mel
I have a very dog eared Cranks book as well. We love Homity Pie. mummmm delicious
Wendy

[melons]

Now your talking