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
	Food Facts for the Kitchen Front By Food Ministry, Minister of Food Lord Woolton Collins - 1940		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	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
	FOUR SEASONS COOKERY BOOK By Margaret Costa Grub Street Cookery - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 5 1
	Fresh from France: Vegetable Creations By Faye Levy Grafton - 1990		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	The Frugal Cook By Fiona Beckett Absolute Press - 2011		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Frugal Food (Coronet Books) By Delia Smith Coronet Books - 1987		(2 recipe reviews) 4 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
	A Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium By Good Housekeeping Institute The Waverley Book Company - 1957		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	GOOD THINGS By Jane Grigson Grub Street Cookery - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 5 2
	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 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: Fast Food (Hairy Bikers) By Hairy Bikers, Si King, Dave Myers Weidenfeld & Nicolson - 2016		(7 recipe reviews) 1 7
	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: How to Love Food and Lose Weight By Hairy Bikers W&N - 2012		(11 recipe reviews) 2 6
	Home Made Wines, Syrups and Cordials By F. W. Beech National Federation of Women's Institutes - 1956		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking By Nigella Lawson Hyperion - 2001		(7 recipe reviews) 72 3
	How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 1999		(3 recipe reviews) 14 2
	The I Hate to Cook Book By Peg Bracken Fawcett Publications Inc - 1960		(2 recipe reviews) 4 1
	I [Symbol of a Heart] Curry: The Best Indian Curries You'll Ever Cook By Anand, Anjum Anand Quadrille Publishing - 2010		(6 recipe reviews) 3 2
	In Praise of the Potato: Recipes from Around the World By Lindsey Bareham Michael Joseph Ltd - 1989		(2 recipe reviews) 4 2
	Introduction to Indian Cooking (Penguin Handbooks) By Madhur Jaffrey Penguin Books Ltd - 1978		(1 recipe review) 5 1
	The Italian Diet By Gino D'Acampo, Juliette Kellow Kyle Cathie - 2010		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Italian Food (Penguin Cookery Library) By Elizabeth David, Renato Guttuso Penguin Books Ltd - 1993		(7 recipe reviews) 4 1
	Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book By Jane Grigson Michael Joseph Ltd - 1978		(3 recipe reviews) 4 1
	Jane Grigson's Fish Book By Jane Grigson, Sara Dickerman, Amy Sherman, Yvonne Skargon Penguin UK - 1998		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	Jane Grigson's Fruit Book By Jane Grigson Penguin Books Ltd - 1983		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Jenny Baker's Cuisine Grandmere: From Brittany, Normandy, Picardy and Flanders By Jenny Baker Faber & Faber - 1995		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Joy of Cooking By Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. - 1964		(4 recipe reviews) 18 1
	Ken Hom's Illustrated Chinese Cookery By Ken Hom BBC Books - 1996		(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
	The Kitchen Diaries II By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate - 2012		(20 recipe reviews) 12 1
	The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen By Nigel Slater Fourth Estate Ltd - 2007		(22 recipe reviews) 36 1
	Kitchen in the Corner By Katharine Whitehorn MacGibbon & Kee - 1961		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home By Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus - 2010		(18 recipe reviews) 26 1
	Leon: Ingredients and Recipes By Allegra McEvedy Conran Octopus Ltd - 2008		(2 recipe reviews) 8 1
	Lithuanian Traditional Foods By Birute Imbrasiene, Henrikas Sakalauskas, Giedre Ambrozaitiene Baltos Lankos Publishers - 1998		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible By Madhur Jaffrey Ebury Press - 2003		(7 recipe reviews) 11 3
	The Medieval Cookbook By Maggie Black Thames & Hudson - 1996		(1 recipe review) 2 1
	Mexican Food Made Simple By Thomasina Miers Hodder & Stoughton Ltd - 2010		(2 recipe reviews) 6 2
	Mince Matters (Penguin Handbooks) By Elaine Hallgarten Penguin Books Ltd - 1978		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	Modern British Food (Penguin Cookery Library) By Sybil Kapoor Penguin Books Ltd - 1996		(2 recipe reviews) 1 2
	Modern Cookery for Private Families By Acton, Eliza Elek - 0000		(3 recipe reviews) 1 3
	Moorish Food: Mouthwatering Recipes from Morocco and the Mediterranean By Sarah Woodward, Gus Filgate, Alan Keohane Kyle Cathie - 1998		(2 recipe reviews) 2 2
	The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health: More Than 200 New Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Delicious and Nutrient-Rich Dishes By Moosewood Collective Simon & Schuster - 2009		(4 recipe reviews) 18 1
	Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special: More Than 275 Recipes for Soups, Stews, Salads and Extras By Moosewood Collective Clarkson Potter - 1999		(18 recipe reviews) 33 1
	The Moro Cookbook By Samantha Clark, Samuel Clark, Pia Tryde Ebury Press - 2003		(14 recipe reviews) 14 2
	Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book By Beeton, Isabella Ward Lock & Co - 1903		(1 recipe review) 1 1
	The Mushroom Feast By Jane Grigson Penguin Books - 1983		(2 recipe reviews) 3 2
	A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library) By Claudia Roden Penguin - 1986		(4 recipe reviews) 9 2

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