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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).

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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Lithuanian Traditional Foods

By Birute Imbrasiene, Henrikas Sakalauskas, Giedre Ambrozaitiene
Baltos Lankos Publishers - 1998

Lithuanians appear to eat a lot of potatoes and mushrooms (each has its own section in this book) so I picked a recipe featuring both - layered mashed potato and mushrooms (fried with onion and breadcrumbs) topped with beaten egg. I enjoyed the result, which I ate as an accompaniment to rabbit stew, though the egg formed quite a tough skin on the top; next time I might mix it into the mashed potato instead.

I picked Other as the cuisine type since the Baltic isn't exactly Eastern Europe, but nor is it Scandinavia.

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