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).
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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 | What's Cooking: Rice & RisottoBy Elizabeth Wolf-Cohen, Paul Forrester, Colin Bowling | (1 recipe review)  2 1 |
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 | A Wolf in the Kitchen: Easy Food for Hungry People (Penguin cookery library)By Lindsey Bareham | (2 recipe reviews) 3 2 |
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 | Yorkshire RecipesBy Mrs Appleby | (1 recipe review) 1 1 |
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