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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The Paris Cookbook

By Patricia Wells
Kyle Cathie - 2003

TOO MUCH VINEGAR! I had my doubts early on but stuck to my mission of cooking all new recipes by the book; the outcome confirmed my suspicion that there may have been a misprint in the quantities. I'd taken the precaution of having extra passata and stock handy, so was able to tone down the sauce from What the Hell is This to the Pleasantly Tangy that I'd been hoping for (and there was a LOT of sauce - I ended up with about three helpings of Pleasantly Tangy Chicken and Tomato Soup in addition to the sauce I kept to go with the main dish).

I would try this again, starting with about 3 tablespoons of each type of vinegar rather than the 3 fluid oz given in the recipe.

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