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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Simply BritishBy Sybil Kapoor, john Spencer
Penguin Books Ltd - 1999
Like gravadlax, but trout. It's lightly cured (24 hours only) so the trout does need to be fresh at the outset. I found the fennel seed a bit too strong which is why I've deducted a star; next time I'll probably reduce it by half and increase the lemon zest.
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