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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
	Yorkshire Recipes By Mrs Appleby Dalesman Publishing Company - 1964		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	A Wolf in the Kitchen: Easy Food for Hungry People (Penguin cookery library) By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 2000		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	What's Cooking: Rice & Risotto By Elizabeth Wolf-Cohen, Paul Forrester, Colin Bowling Thunder Bay Press (CA) - 2000		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Vegetarian Dishes Around the World: The Finest of Foreign Flavours (Essential Rose Elliot) By Rose Elliot Thorsons - 1996		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Vegetable Bible: The Definitive Guide By Sophie Grigson Collins - 2009		(3 recipe reviews) 1 3
	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) 1 1
	Ultimate Slow Cooker: Over 100 Simple, Delicious Recipes By Sara Lewis Hamlyn - 2008		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Ultimate Book of Fish & Shellfish: A Comprehensive Cooking Encyclopedia and Guide, Including 300 Fantastic Step-By-Step Recipes and Over 1500 Fabu By Kate Whiteman JG Press - 2009		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	U.S.A. Cookbook By Sheila Lukins, Carolyn Vibbert Workman Publishing Company - 1997		(1 recipe review) 11 1
	Tender: v. 1: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate Ltd - 2009		(11 recipe reviews) 24 5
	Tender: Volume II, A cook's guide to the fruit garden By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate - 2010		(8 recipe reviews) 15 3
	A Taste of Wales By Theodora FitzGibbon Macmillan - 1973		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Taste of Thailand By Vatcharin Bhumichitr, Clive Streeter, Michael Freeman Macmillan General Reference - 1993		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	Taste of Nepal (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) By Jyoti Pathak Hippocrene Books - 2007		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain By Penelope Casas Knopf - 1985		(7 recipe reviews) 10 2
	Supper Won't Take Long: Favourite Recipes from the "Evening Standard" By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 1997		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	Spices, Salts and Aromatics in the English Kitchen ( Ancient and Modern English Cooking: Vol.1 ) By Elizabeth David Penguin Books Ltd - 1970		(1 recipe review) 7 1
	Spanish Regional Cookery (Penguin handbooks) By Anna Macmiadhachain Penguin Books Ltd - 1976		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	South East Asian Food (Penguin handbook) By Rosemary Brissenden Penguin Books Ltd - 1970		(2 recipe reviews) 2 1
	Soups By Hannah Wright Robert Hale - 1992		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Soup By Nick Sandler, Johnny Acton Kyle Cathie - 2003		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Sophie's Table (Penguin Cookery Library) By Sophie Grigson Penguin Books Ltd - 1992		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Slow Cooking from Around the World By Carolyn Humphries W Foulsham & Co Ltd - 2006		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Simply British By Sybil Kapoor, john Spencer Penguin Books Ltd - 1999		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Silver Palate Cookbook By Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Michael McLaughlin Workman Publishing Company - 1982		(42 recipe reviews) 80 1
	Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less By Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph - 2013		(2 recipe reviews) 7 1
	Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus By Caroline Eden, Eleanor Ford Kyle Books - 2016		(3 recipe reviews) 3 3
	Russian Delight: A Cookbook of the Soviet Peoples By V V Pokhlebkin Pan - 1978		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Meals in Minutes By Rose Elliot Harpercollins Reference Hbacks - 2005		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The River Cottage Year By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hodder & Stoughton Ltd - 2003		(1 recipe review) 9 1
	River Cottage Veg Every Day! (River Cottage Every Day) By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 2011		(13 recipe reviews) 21 3
	The River Cottage Meat Book By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hodder & Stoughton - 2004		(5 recipe reviews) 13 1
	The River Cottage Fish Book By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 2007		(14 recipe reviews) 6 2
	River Cottage Everyday By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 2009		(15 recipe reviews) 15 6
	The River Cottage Cookbook By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Wheeler Ten Speed Press - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 11 1
	The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cookery By Elisabeth Luard Bantam Press - 1986		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Recipes from a Greek Island By Susie Jacobs Conran Octopus Ltd - 1991		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Really Helpful Cookbook By Ruth Watson Ebury Press - 2000		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Prudence Penny Binding of the United States Regional Cook Book By Ruth Berolzheimer Consolidated Book Publishers - 1947		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook By Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman Workman Publishing Company - 1990		(7 recipe reviews) 9 1
	Pasta for Pleasure (A Fontana Original) By Moyra Bremner, Liz Filippini Fontana Press - 1984		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Paris Cookbook By Patricia Wells Kyle Cathie - 2003		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	Onions without Tears: Cooking with Onions, Leeks, Garlic and Chives By Lindsey Bareham Michael Joseph Ltd - 1995		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	On Drink By Kinsgley Amis Harcourt - 1973		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Omelette Book By Chamberlain, Narcissa Knopf - 1956		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Olive and the Caper: Adventures in Greek Cooking By Susanna Hoffman Workman Publishing Company - 2004		(182 recipe reviews) 30 1
	Offal: Gourmet Cookery from Head to Tail (Home & Garden Series) By Jana Allen, Margaret Gin Pitman - 1976		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Off the Beeton Track By Peter Pirbright Golden Gallery Press Ltd - 1946		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	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) 2 1
	North Atlantic Seafood (Penguin Cookery Library) By Alan Davidson Penguin Books Ltd - 1991		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2