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From: Northern England,

Joined: October 7th, 2012

About me: I've embarked on a mission to cook something new from every cookery book I own - currently 260 - and am planning to use my account here to keep track (thanks to rfb from Librarything for tipping me off to the existence of this site). I've made a couple of rules for myself: to cook the recipe as given, with no substitution or variation unless suggested by the author; and to try to pick a genuinely new dish from each book - in other words, as I've cooked many Leek and Potato Soups in my time, I don't get to count Leek and Potato Soup as a new dish just because I haven't used this specific recipe before (unless it has really significant differences from the usual versions).

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Hodge Podge from Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book

Beef and vegetable soup with beer - turned out disappointingly bland. The recipe had no seasoning other than salt and pepper - having tried it, I added a stock cube and some Worcester sauce, which helped... read more >

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Title		Tags	Ratings & Reviews
	17th Century Recipts from Count Peter's Receipt Book Gastronomy and History From Visingsborg, Sweden's First County. By Ingrid Larsson Haglund [Strandgarden, Sweden: Atelje Lovisa, 2000] 1st ed. - 2000		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	200 Curries: Over 200 Delicious Recipes and Ideas (All Colour Cookbook) By Sunil Vijayakar Hamlyn - 2009		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The 30-minute Cook: The Best of the World's Quick Cooking (Penguin cookery books) By Nigel Slater, Juliet Dallas-Conte, Kevin Summers Penguin Books Ltd - 1996		(12 recipe reviews) 4 3
	50 Great Curries of India By Camellia Panjabi, Peter Knab Kyle Cathie - 2004		(3 recipe reviews) 4 2
	Accidental Vegetarian By Simon Rimmer Cassell Illustrated - 2006		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Anjum's New Indian By Anjum Anand Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2009		(1 recipe review) 4 1
	Anjum's Quick & Easy Indian By Anjum Anand Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2014		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food: A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War By Arabella Boxer Penguin - 2012		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Bean Book By Rose Elliot Fontana Press - 1980		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	A Bird in the Hand: Chicken Recipes for Every Day and Every Mood By Diana Henry Mitchell Beazley - 2015		(7 recipe reviews) 6 1
	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day By Claudia Roden Penguin - 1999		(2 recipe reviews) 8 2
	A Book of Mediterranean Food By Elizabeth David, John Minton Penguin (Non-Classics) - 1956		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	Caribbean Cooking (Cookery Library) By Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz Penguin Books Ltd - 1993		(2 recipe reviews) 5 2
	Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook By Sam Clark and Sam Clark, Samuel Clark Ebury Press - 2004		(5 recipe reviews) 9 1
	A Celebration of Soup: With Classic Recipes from Around the World (Cookery Library) By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 2001		(4 recipe reviews) 6 3
	Classic Indian Cooking By Julie Sahni Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd - 1988		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Classical Cookbook By Andrew Dalby, Sally Grainger British Museum Press - 1996		(3 recipe reviews) 2 3
	The Complete Asian Cookbook By Charmaine Solomon Tuttle Publishing - 1992		(26 recipe reviews) 21 2
	The Complete Meze Table By Rosamond Man Ebury Press - 1986		(13 recipe reviews) 3 1
	The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside By Amanda Hesser, Kate Gridley W. W. Norton & Company - 2000		(2 recipe reviews) 12 1
	Cooking in Ten Minutes: Or the Adaptation of Cooking to the Rhythm of Our Time By Edouard De Pomiane, Peggie Benton, Peggie Benton Faber & Faber - 1985		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Cooking with Pomiane By Edouard De Pomiane, Elizabeth David, Peggie Benton Serif - 1993		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	A Cook's Calendar: Seasonal Menus By Frances Bissell Chatto & Windus - 1985		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Cuisine Grand-mere: Traditional French Home Cooking By Marie-Pierre Moine Ebury Press - 2001		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Cuisine of Hungary (Penguin Cookery Library) By George Lang, Josef Venesz, Joseph Wechsberg Penguin Books Ltd - 1993		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Cuisine of the Rose: Classic French Cooking from Burgundy and Lyonnais (Penguin Cookery Library) By Mireille Johnston, Milton Glaser Penguin Books Ltd - 1992		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	The Cuisine of the Sun : Classical French Cooking from Nice & Provence By Mireille Johnston Biscuit Books, Incorporated - 1996		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Curry Club 250 Favourite Curries and Accompaniments By Pat Chapman Piatkus Books - 1993		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	The Curry Club Indian Restaurant Cookbook By Pat Chapman Salem House Pub - 1986		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Customs and Cookery in the Perigord and Quercy By Anne Penton David & Charles - 1973		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Delia Smith's One is Fun! (Coronet Books) By Delia Smith Hodder & Stoughton - 1987		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	Eastern Vegetarian Cooking By Madhur Jaffrey Arrow - 1990		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Easy Spanish Style ("Australian Women's Weekly" Home Library) By Mary Coleman ACP Publishing Pty Ltd - 1997		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate - 2013		(6 recipe reviews) 7 2
	Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns) By Various Authors Michael O'Mara - 2007		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Eating in By Fay Maschler Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 1988		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking By Elinor Fettiplace, Hilary Spurling Penguin Books Ltd - 1987		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking By Marcella Hazan Knopf - 1992		(89 recipe reviews) 97 1
	The Experienced English Housekeeper (Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping) By Elizabeth Raffald Southover Press - 1996		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Farmhouse Fare By Mary Day Hulton Press - 1947		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Fat Girl Slim By Ruth Watson Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2004		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	Favourite Lancashire Recipes (Favourite Recipes) By Dorothy Baldock, A. Wood J Salmon Ltd - 1995		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Feast: Food that Celebrates Life By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2004		(2 recipe reviews) 4 2
	Feeding the Nation By Patten, Marguerite Hamlyn - 2005		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Fine English Cookery By Michael Smith, Geraldene Holt, Benedicte Barford Serif - 1998		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Flavour of France in Recipes and Pictures By Narcissa G. and Narcisse Chamberlain Hamilton - 1960		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Flavour of France in Recipes and Pictures Volume 2 By Narcissa G Chamberlain & Narcisse Chamberlain Hamish Hamilton - 1964		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Flavours of India By Madhur Jaffrey BBC Books - 1995		(12 recipe reviews) 4 3
	The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe (At Table) By Lesley Chamberlain Bison Books - 2006		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Food and Cooking of Greece: A Classic Mediterranean Cuisine: History, Traditions, Ingredients and Over 160 Recipes By Rena Salaman, Jan Cutler Southwater - 2013		(1 recipe review) 1 1