Anyone want a little giggle-I’ve found a cake book from the 1970’s

[retainertrainer]

I’ve been sorting out my mum’s cupboards and came across the woman’s weekly birthday cake special. I’m going to take my inspiration from it for all family birthdays in the future.

Who knew you could make such masterpieces out of buttercream!

I had the pig cake from the book on my 8th birthday! Wish I had a picture of the recreation - it was pretty spot on

Petalflowers what is the name of the Stork cookbook and one other question for anyone is the ginger cake in every Bero cookbook ?

I have a St Michael microwave cookbook from the 80s. It's glorious!

WindyWednesday my mum had the Sainsburys desserts book. I always loved the author's name! .

FreezerBird, I still have a copy of the same edition of the Hamlyn cookbook, which I used for GCSE cookery in the 80s. There are some interesting recipes!

I have a Stork/Oxo cookbook that was published in the 1970s. I love it!

Marguerite pattons rock buns and chicken n bacon pie take some beating. My lot love them.

My Mum had a cookbook like that! But I think it was a different one, there was a luminous green cake in it.

Anyone else have the little Stork booklets? I think you saved the wrappers and sent them off.

My friend gave me a copy of Mrs Beeton. It's fascinating to read.

I have the same book OP! DD loved working through it making the cakes with me when she was little.

That’s the one imaginarycat what frosting is it please? I loathe and despise buttercream so this was miraculous...

You can still buy the Be-ro cook book on their website (www.be-ro.co.uk) although it’s the 41st edition now. Only £2!

www.be-ro.co.uk

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@namechange4000 I have an updated version of that 😂 I call it my bible 😂

I learnt to bake with that!

If anyone has a Marks and Spencer’s baking book from sometime in the late 70’s or early 80’s I’d really appreciate the t cope for the square chocolate fudge cake.

I’m so keen to find the recipe I’ve bought various copies of markies baking books over the years but none have the recipe I’m after.

When I was a child in the 80s everyone's mum had this book. That novelty hedgehog cake with the chocolate buttons for spikes appears in this one. It must have been the easiest one in the book because everyone seemed to have it for their birthday in 1985

I have the Be-Ro cookbook - I hadn't looked at it in ages, but its actually really good for basics (scones, cheese / white sauce, gingerbread, biscuits etc) and has some great recipes that are easy for kids to make

@retainertrainer - those cakes are so sketchy, if I had baked those I would be embarrassed and call them failures! And I am very much NOT a good baker.

I especially like the creepy "Stepford Wives" Tea Party and also the "Goblins Weirded out by a Warty Penis" cake. Thanks so much for posting, I am crying with laughter!

Amazing pictures OP! I love how the official cakes look so fabulously amateurish!

I once came across a book my great gran had given my gran that had been given to her by her mother when I was a teen.

I forget the title but it was something like "how to be a good wife"

It contained housework tips, recipes (with a definite emphasis on penis portioning!), mothering tips but the parts I as a teen found most fascinating - especially as I wrongly thought these weren't "things" back then were tips on bodily hair removal for women (including pubic! So often see on here it's a "modern" thing it's really not!), how to select the right perfume depending on what sort of man your husband is sexually! How to make your cheeks appear flushed, eyes brighter, bosoms more buxom, to please your husband that he might deign to procreate! It was most insightful and quite hilarious!

My now ex-mil gave me an old 60's recipe book too, again I forget the title and who by and WISH I still had it. It contained some fantastic recipes but even better had foolproof info on basics of cooking from how to select fresh ingredients to how to peel, chop, de-seed etc various fruits and vegetables inc some that are still relatively rarely used in the uk today, spot on recipes for the various types of pastry with shortcuts and handy tips for storage and use, clear instructions on how to line awkwardly shaped tins for novelty dishes, how to make cake collars etc there was even a tip for speeding up the setting of jelly! Which I've now forgotten! it was wonderful! Sadly lost in a house move

Might have been a good housekeeping one but I'm not sure.

Urbanbeetler - have you seen the "back in time for..." Programmes? The food ones? Definitely there were records relating to father having bacon and wife and DC having simply bread fried in the fat, because they reserved the meat for the earner/higher earner. Fascinating stuff and while objectionable to us now made perfect sense to those families at that time.

"You can tell the vintage of the lion cake because it is festooned with those jelly orange slices. They need to make a comeback." You can still get them! I get them for an aunt every year for Christmas.

Some of those pics are terrifying!

I well remember leafing through other grans various recipe books - too many recipes "...in aspic"

I think all aussies of a certain age will find this hilarious!

Thanks so much for the inspiration! I found this book in a pub last year and have been meaning to order it ever since. Just found it for 70p plus postage. It is wonderful and contains the best recipe for a cocktail ever.

Sloe Gin Cocktail
1/2 wine glass sloe gin
1/2 tsp orange bitters
1/2 wine glass dry gin
Small piece of lemon peel
Crushed ice

Gin with gin...what’s not to like?!

Oh Bollocks!! Try again...

Recipe cards with a blue band - was that Robert Carrier, Cordon Bleu something?

I used to see the Galloping Gourmet on tv, he eventually dropped all the clarified butter (and quick slurp of wine) for healthier fare, which was not as much fun tbh.