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).

Latest review:

June 10th, 2019

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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Sovay's Bookshelf

153 book(s). Click the title of a book to start adding your recipe and book reviews.

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Title		Tags	Ratings & Reviews
	The Hairy Dieters Eat for Life: How to Love Food, Lose Weight and Keep it Off for Good! (Hairy Bikers) By Hairy Bikers, Si King, Dave Myers W&N - 2013		(8 recipe reviews) 3 4
	The Hairy Dieters: Good Eating (Hairy Bikers) By Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers, Si King W&N - 2014		(7 recipe reviews) 2 6
	The Moro Cookbook By Samantha Clark, Samuel Clark, Pia Tryde Ebury Press - 2003		(14 recipe reviews) 14 2
	Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain By Penelope Casas Knopf - 1985		(7 recipe reviews) 10 2
	The 30-minute Cook: The Best of the World's Quick Cooking (Penguin cookery books) By Nigel Slater, Juliet Dallas-Conte, Kevin Summers Penguin Books Ltd - 1996		(12 recipe reviews) 4 3
	Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2010		(18 recipe reviews) 26 1
	A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library) By Claudia Roden Penguin - 1986		(4 recipe reviews) 9 2
	Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook By Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman Workman Publishing Company - 1990		(7 recipe reviews) 9 1
	The Vegetable Bible: The Definitive Guide By Sophie Grigson Collins - 2009		(3 recipe reviews) 1 3
	Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook By Sam Clark and Sam Clark, Samuel Clark Ebury Press - 2004		(5 recipe reviews) 9 1
	The Complete Meze Table By Rosamond Man Ebury Press - 1986		(13 recipe reviews) 3 1
	Accidental Vegetarian By Simon Rimmer Cassell Illustrated - 2006		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Curry Club 250 Favourite Curries and Accompaniments By Pat Chapman Piatkus Books - 1993		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Eastern Vegetarian Cooking By Madhur Jaffrey Arrow - 1990		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking By Elinor Fettiplace, Hilary Spurling Penguin Books Ltd - 1987		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Flavour of France in Recipes and Pictures Volume 2 By Narcissa G Chamberlain & Narcisse Chamberlain Hamish Hamilton - 1964		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Mexican Food Made Simple By Thomasina Miers Hodder & Stoughton Ltd - 2010		(2 recipe reviews) 6 2
	Modern British Food (Penguin Cookery Library) By Sybil Kapoor Penguin Books Ltd - 1996		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Off the Beeton Track By Peter Pirbright Golden Gallery Press Ltd - 1946		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Taste of Nepal (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) By Jyoti Pathak Hippocrene Books - 2007		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	A Wolf in the Kitchen: Easy Food for Hungry People (Penguin cookery library) By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 2000		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Italian Food (Penguin Cookery Library) By Elizabeth David, Renato Guttuso Penguin Books Ltd - 1993		(7 recipe reviews) 4 1
	The Bean Book By Rose Elliot Fontana Press - 1980		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Cooking in Ten Minutes: Or the Adaptation of Cooking to the Rhythm of Our Time By Edouard De Pomiane, Peggie Benton, Peggie Benton Faber & Faber - 1985		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	A Cook's Calendar: Seasonal Menus By Frances Bissell Chatto & Windus - 1985		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Experienced English Housekeeper (Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping) By Elizabeth Raffald Southover Press - 1996		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Farmhouse Fare By Mary Day Hulton Press - 1947		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Favourite Lancashire Recipes (Favourite Recipes) By Dorothy Baldock, A. Wood J Salmon Ltd - 1995		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Food In England: A complete guide to the food that makes us who we are By Dorothy Hartley Piatkus - 2009		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Frugal Cook By Fiona Beckett Absolute Press - 2011		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Gentle Art of Cookery By Mrs. C. F. Leyel, Olga Hartley Chatto & Windus - 1983		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Good Food from Denmark and Norway By James & Elizabeth White Frederick Muller Ltd - 1959		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	GOOD THINGS By Jane Grigson Grub Street Cookery - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 5 2
	The I Hate to Cook Book By Peg Bracken Fawcett Publications Inc - 1960		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	The Italian Diet By Gino D'Acampo, Juliette Kellow Kyle Cathie - 2010		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Jane Grigson's Fruit Book By Jane Grigson Penguin Books Ltd - 1983		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Kitchen in the Corner By Katharine Whitehorn MacGibbon & Kee - 1961		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Lithuanian Traditional Foods By Birute Imbrasiene, Henrikas Sakalauskas, Giedre Ambrozaitiene Baltos Lankos Publishers - 1998		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Medieval Cookbook By Maggie Black Thames & Hudson - 1996		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Northern cookbook By Hurtig Publishers in cooperation with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada - 1979		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	The Omelette Book By Chamberlain, Narcissa Knopf - 1956		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Prudence Penny Binding of the United States Regional Cook Book By Ruth Berolzheimer Consolidated Book Publishers - 1947		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Sophie's Table (Penguin Cookery Library) By Sophie Grigson Penguin Books Ltd - 1992		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Soup By Nick Sandler, Johnny Acton Kyle Cathie - 2003		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Supper Won't Take Long: Favourite Recipes from the "Evening Standard" By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 1997		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: From Lady Mary's Crab Canapés to Mrs. Patmore's Christmas Pudding - More Than 150 Recipes from Upstairs and Downstairs By Emily Ansara Baines Adams Media Corporation - 2012		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Yorkshire Recipes By Mrs Appleby Dalesman Publishing Company - 1964		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Modern Cookery for Private Families By Acton, Eliza Elek - 0000		(3 recipe reviews) 1 3
	Food Facts for the Kitchen Front By Food Ministry, Minister of Food Lord Woolton Collins - 1940		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns) By Various Authors Michael O'Mara - 2007		(1 recipe review) 1 1

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