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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Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Acton, Eliza
Elek - 0000

A kind of timbale, I suppose - salmon, egg, a little cream and quite a lot of breadcrumbs, in spite of which the flavour was good. It also looked good when turned out of its basin, though it would probably be prettier with white breadcrumbs rather than wholemeal.

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Disappointing -looked nice but tasted very little of cucumber since most of the flavour is in the skin, which is not used in this recipe. Mine tasted mainly of vegetable stock, and I suspect the original tasted mainly of the "pale veal gravy" for which I substituted said stock.

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I tried this out of curiosity - it's lettuce and a little onion dressed with black treacle, vinegar and pepper - but although it wouldn't go with everything it's actually pretty good as an accompaniment to a couple of slices of ham and some potato salad.

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