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Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/10/2021 20:12

I know that this is owned by many a Mumsnetter but.....when did you last look at it in detail?

Some of the recipes are downright disturbing!

Particular favourites found when DD and I were looking through it earlier are.....Prawn and Potato Salad, crab/chicken Mayonnaise and Chicken Creme......

Mind blowing stuff! Had to explain to DD that we didnt actually eat that stuff in the 70's and it was more aimed at the Margot Leadbetters of the world!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/10/2021 20:14

And there are some stunning Desserts in the Pasta and Rice section....I kid you not!

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CruellaDeVilla · 20/10/2021 20:16

I used to have this! It is indeed grim

Battendownthesnacks · 20/10/2021 20:18

My mum had this! IIRC there was a chocolate pasta dessert Grin

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FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 20/10/2021 20:24

I have it! The lemon cheesecake recipe is lovely, and the chocolate pots and hot cross buns and I like the curry. I'm sure there're others I make from it but they're escaping me...

FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 20/10/2021 20:25

Oh, rice pudding and treacle tart I think... I'm off to browse it now Grin

PracticalTacticalBrilliance · 20/10/2021 20:27

Haha most of it I quit mad! I mainly use ours for the baking/pudding recipes

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/10/2021 21:11

Yep there is indeed a chocolate pasta pudding!

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vampirethriller · 20/10/2021 21:44

My gran used to have an orange copy, there was a recipe for chicken and lychees which managed to taste of neither chicken nor lychees.

DramaAlpaca · 20/10/2021 21:50

It is very much a book of its time.

I keep mine because it holds memories of the recipes my DM used to make from it, some successful but many not!

One thing I noticed is that every recipe that now would use oil of some sort has lard in the ingredients, as was common in the 70s.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/10/2021 22:34

It is of its time and thats why I love old cook books. I have my mums original Be-Ro Cookery book that she was given before she got married.

The ingredients, the skills, the appliances (or lack of!), the language, its a history book as much as a cook book!

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bearlyactive · 20/10/2021 22:37

I have one! I use the cheese sauce recipe from the cauliflower cheese - that's it. But I do like flicking through it now and again and laughing Grin

ginislife · 20/10/2021 22:39

I still have mine. I still make the key lime pie. It's lush

InconvenientPeg · 20/10/2021 23:16

When the kids moan they don't know what to make on their cooking nights, I always direct them to the more interesting recipes 🤣 they soon come up with something to avoid that!

Nannyamc · 20/10/2021 23:20

I got this as an engagement present in 1977. Still use it for certain things. Just had a look at it. Very outdated but it was a cooking bible at the time.

RampantIvy · 20/10/2021 23:23

Prawn and Potato Salad, crab/chicken Mayonnaise

I'm struggling to understand why you would have an issue with those TBH.

FinallyFluid · 20/10/2021 23:25

Only use it for the cheese sauce.

FinallyFluid · 20/10/2021 23:27

Off to Google, I think Mary Berry was complicit in this. Grin

ShipwreckSunset · 20/10/2021 23:29

My mum had this, used to love looking at the recipes and always wanted the strawberry meringue thing on the front!

Moooooooooooooooooo · 20/10/2021 23:30

I too have this book. Must have been a best seller in its day Smile

FlatteredFool · 20/10/2021 23:34

Pork a la creme and chicken cobbler were my favourites in there as a child before I went veggie. I made the chocolate button cake with my mum when I was little along with the butterfly cakes. I use the Christmas cake recipe from there. I always wanted to make the yellow cake with the purple flowers.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/10/2021 23:34

@RampantIvy

Prawn and Potato Salad, crab/chicken Mayonnaise

I'm struggling to understand why you would have an issue with those TBH.

Then you've not seen the photos!

Prawn and potato salad is just ..... prawns and potatoes.

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SiobhanSharpe · 20/10/2021 23:40

The late, great Marcella Hazan (Italian lady, wrote excellent, detailed and precise Italian cookery books which are the Real Deal) included a recipe in one of them for a chocolate pasta dessert dish.
She said it was a curiosity but surprisingly good.
I have my mother's Good Housekeeping cookery book from the early 1950s which is a bit like the curate's egg - good in parts.
But her justly-famous light fruit cake came from that book (albeit tweaked over the years) also her excellent, authentic Cornish Pasties which we all loved.

FinallyFluid · 20/10/2021 23:47

We have a cookery book that Dh's Nana owned, it is a Radiation Cookery book,circa 1927, some of the recipes start with a dozen oysters. Grin

Poor mans food in those days.

JollyHostess · 21/10/2021 01:14

I had this as a student! Is there a tuna and sweet corn pie in it? I remember it being pretty good 😂

Wish I still had my copy!!