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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Jenny Baker's Cuisine Grandmere: From Brittany, Normandy, Picardy and Flanders

By Jenny Baker
Faber & Faber - 1995

I've spent a few holidays in Belgium and always enjoyed the beer-based dishes - particularly the rabbit in beer (to which this recipe could easily be applied). I used an M&S Cornish pale ale I found in the cupboard, not sure how it got there. Flaming the gin was a bit alarming as always, and I over-reduced the sauce slightly but that wasn't the fault of the recipe - just inattention on my part. One thing to bear in mind is not to trim the root end of the little onions too much, as if they don't have a solid base the middle tends to pop out. Also thicker-cut bacon would have been better in this context.

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