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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Cooking in Ten Minutes: Or the Adaptation of Cooking to the Rhythm of Our Time

By Edouard De Pomiane, Peggie Benton, Peggie Benton
Faber & Faber - 1985

I have never made hollandaise or bearnaise sauce before and I have to say that if I'd followed the instructions to the letter my sauce would have been a curdled disaster. Pomiane directs that the base of the pan containing the egg yolks should be held in a larger pan of boiling water, but I found that an initial quick dip, followed by holding the small pan above but not in the boiling water, provided all the heat required.

Having said that, the sauce did turn out well in the end and was a good accompaniment to the kidney.

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