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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Good Food from Denmark and Norway

By James & Elizabeth White
Frederick Muller Ltd - 1959

This was good though I'd be tempted to increase the ginger and nutmeg a little. The suet gives a really light texture. It would benefit from a sauce - something with mustard and dill would be the obvious choice.

My dad bought this book after he & Mum had their first foreign holiday to Norway in 1959 (after which they started having kids and couldn't afford to holiday abroad again until the mid 1980s). He cooked quite a few recipes from it judging by the notes, and I remember some as part of his standard repertoire, but I don't think he tried this one.

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