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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Kettle Broth to Gooseberry Fool: Book of Simple English Food

By Jenny Baker
Faber & Faber - 1998

This is a great sauce to go with a simply cooked trout, though as always with cooked sorrel it doesn't look pretty as it comes out a dreary khaki shade.

The recipe suggests wedges of lemon to serve but dedicated as I am to lemons, I have to say that the sorrel renders them superfluous in this case. However if one had no sorrel and had to substitute spinach the lemon (or Seville orange in season) would be a good addition.

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