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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).

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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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Title		Tags	Ratings & Reviews
	Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book By Beeton, Isabella Ward Lock & Co - 1903		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Cuisine of the Rose: Classic French Cooking from Burgundy and Lyonnais (Penguin Cookery Library) By Mireille Johnston, Milton Glaser Penguin Books Ltd - 1992		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	Modern Cookery for Private Families By Acton, Eliza Elek - 0000		(3 recipe reviews) 1 3
	A Bird in the Hand: Chicken Recipes for Every Day and Every Mood By Diana Henry Mitchell Beazley - 2015		(7 recipe reviews) 6 1
	Feeding the Nation By Patten, Marguerite Hamlyn - 2005		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Russian Delight: A Cookbook of the Soviet Peoples By V V Pokhlebkin Pan - 1978		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Fat Girl Slim By Ruth Watson Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2004		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Hairy Dieters: Good Eating (Hairy Bikers) By Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers, Si King W&N - 2014		(7 recipe reviews) 2 6
	The Hairy Dieters: Fast Food (Hairy Bikers) By Hairy Bikers, Si King, Dave Myers Weidenfeld & Nicolson - 2016		(7 recipe reviews) 1 7
	Jenny Baker's Cuisine Grandmere: From Brittany, Normandy, Picardy and Flanders By Jenny Baker Faber & Faber - 1995		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	A Taste of Wales By Theodora FitzGibbon Macmillan - 1973		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The I Hate to Cook Book By Peg Bracken Fawcett Publications Inc - 1960		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus By Caroline Eden, Eleanor Ford Kyle Books - 2016		(3 recipe reviews) 3 3
	GOOD THINGS By Jane Grigson Grub Street Cookery - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 5 2
	Sophie's Table (Penguin Cookery Library) By Sophie Grigson Penguin Books Ltd - 1992		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Moorish Food: Mouthwatering Recipes from Morocco and the Mediterranean By Sarah Woodward, Gus Filgate, Alan Keohane Kyle Cathie - 1998		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	Anjum's Quick & Easy Indian By Anjum Anand Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2014		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Nigella Express By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2007		(11 recipe reviews) 16 2
	Introduction to Indian Cooking (Penguin Handbooks) By Madhur Jaffrey Penguin Books Ltd - 1978		(1 recipe review) 5 1
	50 Great Curries of India By Camellia Panjabi, Peter Knab Kyle Cathie - 2004		(3 recipe reviews) 4 2
	Joy of Cooking By Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. - 1964		(4 recipe reviews) 18 1
	Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate - 2013		(6 recipe reviews) 7 2
	The River Cottage Cookbook By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Wheeler Ten Speed Press - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 11 1
	Offal: Gourmet Cookery from Head to Tail (Home & Garden Series) By Jana Allen, Margaret Gin Pitman - 1976		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Nigella Bites By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2001		(6 recipe reviews) 50 1
	Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking By Elinor Fettiplace, Hilary Spurling Penguin Books Ltd - 1987		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day By Claudia Roden Penguin - 1999		(2 recipe reviews) 8 2
	The Food and Cooking of Greece: A Classic Mediterranean Cuisine: History, Traditions, Ingredients and Over 160 Recipes By Rena Salaman, Jan Cutler Southwater - 2013		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Fresh from France: Vegetable Creations By Faye Levy Grafton - 1990		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2010		(18 recipe reviews) 26 1
	Frugal Food (Coronet Books) By Delia Smith Coronet Books - 1987		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	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
	Recipes from a Greek Island By Susie Jacobs Conran Octopus Ltd - 1991		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	17th Century Recipts from Count Peter's Receipt Book Gastronomy and History From Visingsborg, Sweden's First County. By Ingrid Larsson Haglund [Strandgarden, Sweden: Atelje Lovisa, 2000] 1st ed. - 2000		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Kettle Broth to Gooseberry Fool: Book of Simple English Food By Jenny Baker Faber & Faber - 1998		(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
	200 Curries: Over 200 Delicious Recipes and Ideas (All Colour Cookbook) By Sunil Vijayakar Hamlyn - 2009		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Medieval Cookbook By Maggie Black Thames & Hudson - 1996		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Cooking with Pomiane By Edouard De Pomiane, Elizabeth David, Peggie Benton Serif - 1993		(1 recipe review) 3 1
	A Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium By Good Housekeeping Institute The Waverley Book Company - 1957		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Flavour of France in Recipes and Pictures Volume 2 By Narcissa G Chamberlain & Narcisse Chamberlain Hamish Hamilton - 1964		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Favourite Lancashire Recipes (Favourite Recipes) By Dorothy Baldock, A. Wood J Salmon Ltd - 1995		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Supper Won't Take Long: Favourite Recipes from the "Evening Standard" By Lindsey Bareham Penguin Books Ltd - 1997		(1 recipe review) 3 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
	GOOSE FAT AND GARLIC, Country Recipes from South-west France. By Jeanne Strang., Tony Gregson, Tony Gregson. Kyle Cathie. - 1991		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate Ltd - 2007		(22 recipe reviews) 36 1
	FOUR SEASONS COOKERY BOOK By Margaret Costa Grub Street Cookery - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 5 1
	The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside By Amanda Hesser, Kate Gridley W. W. Norton & Company - 2000		(2 recipe reviews) 12 1
	The Moro Cookbook By Samantha Clark, Samuel Clark, Pia Tryde Ebury Press - 2003		(14 recipe reviews) 14 2
	The Taste of Thailand By Vatcharin Bhumichitr, Clive Streeter, Michael Freeman Macmillan General Reference - 1993		(1 recipe review) 3 1