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

Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book

By Beeton, Isabella
Ward Lock & Co - 1903


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

Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)

By Various Authors
Michael O'Mara - 2007


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

Eating in

By Fay Maschler
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 1988


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

The Paris Cookbook

By Patricia Wells
Kyle Cathie - 2003


(1 recipe review)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 1

Food Facts for the Kitchen Front

By Food Ministry, Minister of Food Lord Woolton
Collins - 1940


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Acton, Eliza
Elek - 0000


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 3

The Bean Book

By Rose Elliot
Fontana Press - 1980


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

A Cook's Calendar: Seasonal Menus

By Frances Bissell
Chatto & Windus - 1985


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

The Experienced English Housekeeper (Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping)

By Elizabeth Raffald
Southover Press - 1996


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

Farmhouse Fare

By Mary Day
Hulton Press - 1947


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

Favourite Lancashire Recipes (Favourite Recipes)

By Dorothy Baldock, A. Wood
J Salmon Ltd - 1995


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

Food In England: A complete guide to the food that makes us who we are

By Dorothy Hartley
Piatkus - 2009


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

The Frugal Cook

By Fiona Beckett
Absolute Press - 2011


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

The Gentle Art of Cookery

By Mrs. C. F. Leyel, Olga Hartley
Chatto & Windus - 1983


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

Good Food from Denmark and Norway

By James & Elizabeth White
Frederick Muller Ltd - 1959


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

GOOD THINGS

By Jane Grigson
Grub Street Cookery - 2008


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 2

The I Hate to Cook Book

By Peg Bracken
Fawcett Publications Inc - 1960


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 1

The Italian Diet

By Gino D'Acampo, Juliette Kellow
Kyle Cathie - 2010


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

By Jane Grigson
Penguin Books Ltd - 1983


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

Kitchen in the Corner

By Katharine Whitehorn
MacGibbon & Kee - 1961


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

Lithuanian Traditional Foods

By Birute Imbrasiene, Henrikas Sakalauskas, Giedre Ambrozaitiene
Baltos Lankos Publishers - 1998


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

The Medieval Cookbook

By Maggie Black
Thames & Hudson - 1996


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

Northern cookbook

By
Hurtig Publishers in cooperation with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada - 1979


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

The Omelette Book

By Chamberlain, Narcissa
Knopf - 1956


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 2

The Prudence Penny Binding of the United States Regional Cook Book

By Ruth Berolzheimer
Consolidated Book Publishers - 1947


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

Sophie's Table (Penguin Cookery Library)

By Sophie Grigson
Penguin Books Ltd - 1992


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

Soup

By Nick Sandler, Johnny Acton
Kyle Cathie - 2003


(1 recipe review)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 1

Supper Won't Take Long: Favourite Recipes from the "Evening Standard"

By Lindsey Bareham
Penguin Books Ltd - 1997


(1 recipe review)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 1

The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: From Lady Mary's Crab Canapés to Mrs. Patmore's Christmas Pudding - More Than 150 Recipes from Upstairs and Downstairs

By Emily Ansara Baines
Adams Media Corporation - 2012


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

Yorkshire Recipes

By Mrs Appleby
Dalesman Publishing Company - 1964


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

Italian Food (Penguin Cookery Library)

By Elizabeth David, Renato Guttuso
Penguin Books Ltd - 1993


(7 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 1

Accidental Vegetarian

By Simon Rimmer
Cassell Illustrated - 2006


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Curry Club 250 Favourite Curries and Accompaniments

By Pat Chapman
Piatkus Books - 1993


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Eastern Vegetarian Cooking

By Madhur Jaffrey
Arrow - 1990


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 2

Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking

By Elinor Fettiplace, Hilary Spurling
Penguin Books Ltd - 1987


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 2

The Flavour of France in Recipes and Pictures Volume 2

By Narcissa G Chamberlain & Narcisse Chamberlain
Hamish Hamilton - 1964


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Mexican Food Made Simple

By Thomasina Miers
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd - 2010


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 2

Modern British Food (Penguin Cookery Library)

By Sybil Kapoor
Penguin Books Ltd - 1996


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Off the Beeton Track

By Peter Pirbright
Golden Gallery Press Ltd - 1946


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2 book review

Taste of Nepal (Hippocrene Cookbook Library)

By Jyoti Pathak
Hippocrene Books - 2007


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 2

A Wolf in the Kitchen: Easy Food for Hungry People (Penguin cookery library)

By Lindsey Bareham
Penguin Books Ltd - 2000


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 2

The Complete Meze Table

By Rosamond Man
Ebury Press - 1986


(13 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 1

Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook

By Sam Clark and Sam Clark, Samuel Clark
Ebury Press - 2004


(5 recipe reviews)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 1

The Vegetable Bible: The Definitive Guide

By Sophie Grigson
Collins - 2009


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 3

Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook

By Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman
Workman Publishing Company - 1990


(7 recipe reviews)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 1

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library)

By Claudia Roden
Penguin - 1986


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 2

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home

By Nigella Lawson
Chatto & Windus - 2010


(18 recipe reviews)
owned by 26 my recipe reviews 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)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 3

The Hairy Dieters: Good Eating (Hairy Bikers)

By Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers, Si King
W&N - 2014


(7 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 6