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).

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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A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library)

By Claudia Roden
Penguin - 1986

This was good but I found the proportion of yoghurt to aubergine a little high; however I was following the letter of the recipe as per my mission statement, whereas I would normally go more by taste.

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aka cold boiled mince and broad beans with egg. I made it out of curiosity - I was flicking through the book and realised I happened to have the ingredients. I think the thing that bothers me about it is its being cold - I have the same problem with the concept of cold soup. It tasted fine though I missed some element of caramelisation which would come from frying the meat. The broad beans were initially braised with olive oil and thyme - I tried them before adding the meat and they were delicious, so that's the element of the dish I would be most likely to cook again.

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