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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Mince Matters (Penguin Handbooks)

By Elaine Hallgarten
Penguin Books Ltd - 1978

These are straightforward meatballs - the French part is a red wine and mushroom sauce made with two parts red wine to one part beef stock, which I feared was going to be overpowering. However it mellows during the fairly long cooking time. Nevertheless I'll probably go for 50/50 next time, or even two parts stock to one part wine. I inadvertently adjusted the recipe by forgetting to bind the meatballs with egg; this didn't cause any structural problems as they held together fine, and as far as finished texture goes I tend to prefer meatballs without egg.

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