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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Fine English Cookery

By Michael Smith, Geraldene Holt, Benedicte Barford
Serif - 1998

Light and delicious - a great first course.

My book is a 1970s copy in which Michael Smith evidently harked back to older English cookery books which used coins for measuring. As it happens I'm old enough to remember the size of the halfpenny coin and therefore estimate how much curry powder would have lain on one, but younger cooks might be a bit bemused since this coin went out of circulation in 1984! And really I'm not sure that much curry powder made a great difference to the recipe, though next time I might try adding a good pinch of cumin.

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