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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Delia Smith's One is Fun! (Coronet Books)

By Delia Smith
Hodder & Stoughton - 1987

I have several recipes for this dish but chose Delia's because it has no raisins (which I don't like in savoury dishes). I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and it turned out to be what I can best describe as an old-school British curry in frittata form. I rather liked it and will probably make it again, taking advice from some of the other versions and adding the egg and milk topping later in the cooking time - this version added it at the start and it sank in and browned rather than forming a golden layer on top.

I'm wondering whether in fact it couldn't be cooked on the top of the stove like a frittata, with the topping finished off under the grill ...

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