What's your scariest cookbook?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Mine is Wheatland Bounty. Most recipes include some sort of scary processed food (can of cream of tomato soup, jello powder, etc). There are lots of scary jellied sorts of salads, my favourite being one which combines tomato soup, lemon jello powder, creamed cottage cheese, some veg, and some chicken, crab, tuna or salmon.

[gloriainexcHELSIsdeo]

I have a 2 box collection of 1970's recipe cards from around the world that my mum collected in her youth! Some are very strange - I can't even pronounce them never mind cook them.

[Cratchit]

A Gary Rhodes pudding recipe book. Everythin'g so complicated and fiddly, bought it years and years ago because f the pics. Now I know that only works with the Ozzie woman's mag books and Good Housekeeping!

[Issymum]

Easy. Anabelle Karmel. The book made me, in equal measures, feel frustrated, inadequate and vaguely insane. Fashion your children's homemade Canelloni into sleeping bunnies - what?! The book really was quite scarey until I realised that I wouldn't expend that much culinary energy on a promotion-busting dinner for my boss. I hated it so much I actually tossed it in the bin and there are very few books I've done that with.

[Cratchit]

Oh and a German cook book I bought secondhand because it had a gingerbreadhouse in.

[WickedWinterWitch]

for Issymum and any Karmel haters, this was written by a mumsnetter

[JackieNoCribForABed]

If you like scary recipes, you might enjoy this site . Very funny commentary.

[popsycalindisguise]

cooking with cheese

a 1950s book that DH's nan gave me last christmas

hmmm

[moondog]

Oh nqc, I've got one just like that.
Compiled by the Little League of Athen Georgia USA and given to me by a preppy lawyer friend.
His 'mom' is president.
Well spooky.

Have a complete thing about cookery books and those Aussie Women's Weekly ones are excellent.

I do sometimes flick through an Annabel Karmel in disbelief in bookshops.
Wtf???

[NotQuiteCockney]

Mine is by the "Laboriatory Technologists of Saskatchewan".

I have it because my great gran's Yorkshire pudding recipe is in it.

I have not found anything even vaguely useful in it.

[moondog]

Sounds utterly bonkers-just the sort of thing I can never resist.

[PruniStuffing]

Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook - bonkers
egs of recipes:

Heroic Winter Dinner
Springtime Meal of The Word In Liberty
Nocturnal Love Feast
Extremist Banquet
Dynamic Dinner
Tactile Dinner Party
Declaration of Love Dinner

Sadly cannot get any of the recipes/pieces online but trust me, fabulously bonkers.

[ENIDeepMidwinter]

This seems like the perfect time to bring up one of my favourite sites:

just flick through and enjoy the deliciousness

[ENIDeepMidwinter]

btw they are real recipe cards

[ENIDeepMidwinter]

always raises a chuckle

[merrybelly]

'Simple French Food'

Pah!

[popsycalindisguise]

OMG!!!

[moondog]

Oh they're barking Enid.
MI was once good enough to share the whole glorious selection with me.

[miggy]

The heston Blumenthal book with the recipe for "biscuits to make with children" that involves baking the dough and then rerolling it or some such stupidity-never realised boiling hot dough and childrens fingers was such a good combination-mad!

[chipmonksRoastingOnAnOpenFire]

My Annabel Karmel book is fine but its adapted for America. Haven't found it all that difficult but I always cook the meals when ds3 is asleep! My worst was Miriam stppards book where not one recipe resembled food, just some strange animated characters, all meals were cooked, even breakfast and some of the food was just downright weird. I'd swear no-one actually tested some of the recipes, they were so fiddly. I mean cooking something for a child where you have to stand over it to make sure your custard doesn't turn into scrambled egg is not very mum-friendly, is it? And that was just for a snack, not even a full meal!

[BadHair]

Gary Rhodes New British Classics and Rick Stein's Fruits of the Sea. Too complicated by half.
Also a Wholefood Baby book - has a make your own baked beans recipe that uses a pound of beans and takes 4 hours ffs. And you can't freeze the results.

[tex111]

I actually collect those American charity cookbooks that are collections of various groups' favourite recipes. My favourite cookbook is from a hunting club in Texas and includes recipes for squirrel! Fantastic reading but very scary.

Another cake recipe in the book starts its ingredient list with 'a box of cake mix'. Fantastic!

[lunachic]

wierd tex i was just going to post and say i remember a cook book (it was something like food for free) which had a squirrel recipe in it
would like to try to catch it though im not very good at shinning up trees !

[lunachic]

sp.weird doh