Sovay's Profile

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).


Latest review:

June 10th, 2019

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 >


recipe reviews (241)
book reviews (5)
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Sovay's Bookshelf

153 book(s). Click the title of a book to start adding your recipe and book reviews.

TitleTagsRatings & Reviews

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)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 3

200 Curries: Over 200 Delicious Recipes and Ideas (All Colour Cookbook)

By Sunil Vijayakar
Hamlyn - 2009


(1 recipe review)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 1

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)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 1