Do you still have cookery books?

[Flora73]

I probably have about 30-40 on a shelf in the kitchen, but apart from my old Delia and the odd Jamie book, I invariably I find recipes online. So is it time to get rid/pack away? I hate getting rid of books at the best of times!

Yes, like you I have my old favourites.

I also like cookery books for ideas. On-line recipes are great if you know what you want, not so great for inspiration.

I have close to 200. I love cookbooks they are the ultimate expression of hope. It's not Christmas unless I get at least 1 new cookbook.

I got rid of lots last year. Don't miss them but kept 16 of them. And I'm using a recipe this evening that I found online. I could get rid of another 10......

Yes all of them about a 100. I still use them for my favourite recipes and know which pages have familiar splatters. Also a couple have my mums annotation in and she’s not with me anymore.

A few, but mostly "loose recipes I cut from newspapers in see through loose leaf files. At the moment, cooking from Jami Oliver's on TV.

Lots, but I do have a cull every year- that way I can justify buying more! But I know what you mean, most new recipes I try are online.

Yes! And I still love having and recieving them as gifts, although we do most of our cooking through an ap or look recipes up online. I actually like getting them out and just browsing the pictures which my 18m DD is now really into as well! (We are a bit of a strange pair)
The exception would be the "What Mummy Makes" book which I use a ton for snacks, non sugary sweets treats or freezer stash for DD. In lock down I did most of the Hairy Bikers Asian Adventure cookbook... because lockdown. Other than this most books probably have done 1/2 recipes put of and some of them are definitely purely aspirational.
Some of them are just really beautiful objects, I similarly have some fiction that I've not got round to reading but has pride of place on the shelf.

My rule is I have to make at least 2 of the recipes regularly or it has to go.

I have a Scrapbook that I use a lot, and I often write recipes in it that I've found online. Have learnt from bitter experience that they aren't always there when you want to go back and make them again.

Yes, four shelves worth! I am starting to cull as I use very few of them. I am hoping to cook more in my retirement.

I used to have a particularly bad variant of this. Keeping glossy cookery magazines. Cuisine et Vins de France in particular used to be a real treat and I kidded myself that they were helping me learn the language.

After a few years though, I realised that the same recipes came round and round again with very slight variations and it was just food porn. I had to get rid of them all.

I'm not binning my inherited Dairy Diary Cookbook though and the best carrot cake or passion cake recipe I have ever found was in one of those generic cookbooks that you used to get from, "The Book Man" who used to leave a pile of books at work every so often. Do they still exist?

Only about seven. Plus a folder with torn out recipes and cards picked up from supermarkets.

I have about 8 I think. 2 are well over 100 years old, I don't actually use those (think 'take 2 dozen eggs and a pint of brandy...'). Of the others, I have 2 I use frequently, Delia Smith's book of cakes and Joscelyn Dimbleby's Christmas book, 2 I use occasionally, and any others I don't use at all but were presents to my DH.

I have one my brother brought back from HK and then a very old European one that’s written in a way I like it has stuff like throw in a handful of spinach. I have a folder with some cuttings and hand written notes in but mainly look online.

Redheadedstepchild I don't have many cookery books but my Dairy Diary one is a favourite.

Does anyone have a BeRo book? I have my aunt's copy, much worn and loved.

We had around 80/100 but had a big cull a few years ago , probably around 30/40 now.
I used one today ( Jamie Oliver - Veg ) to make Cauliflower Pizza , sounds a bit grim but is actually lush .

The latest 2 I bought were One pot, pan, planet and The Green Roasting Tin. I try to do a recipe from one or other of them once a fortnight & usually start by looking up an ingredient I need to use up.

I go online sometimes but the ads on most sites are irritating, especially the video ones.

Love my cookery books and use lots of them, though I tend to do a small number out of any one book. I also have a scrapbook of recipes picked up from all over the place.

I also subscribe to the New York Times cookery app and my brother let me have his login details for the Guardian one.

I'm a bit sad, really, though I justify it by saying that the ex MIL never bothered with any new cookbook, and her food was stuck in 1962. (Garlic? 'Nasty foreign muck'.)

I used to have 200 but gave 40 or so away to a charity shop. I love Nigella’s cookbooks and also my cookbooks I’ve brought on holiday.

I have a selection of cook books, about 40. I could easily cull a quarter of those.

I like cook books, it doesn't matter if they get splashed. The last place I want to put my laptop is on a worktop full of sauces and crumbs and hot spitting fat.

I forgot to mention that I use a website called RecipeTinEats, which is just great. Most food blogs are really irritating, but I like this one a lot.

The Happy Foodie is a website put up by a publisher of cookery books and has a lot of the recipes from those books. A clever marketing idea, but I use it regularly.

Probably about 15, limited shelf space so it’s one in one out. Although I do occasionally re-buy an old favourite if I see it in a charity shop. I am currently using a baking one by a woman whose blog I have been following on FB, the recipes are really good, it is sitting on the kitchen table for browsing.

Same here they are littered about the house, in the bedroom for bedtime reading, next to me here in the living room for flicking through, out in the conservatory for a leisurely read

Love cookbooks, love all the pictures, love the ones that do a bit of history in them and very unusual foods.

Yes, I have a few. Nearly all of them are passed on to me from other family members.

I have one where my Grandmother wrote in other recipes in the cover and in gaps at the end of the page (she had tiny writing). Another one from another relative who used to write comments about the recipe. Things like made for Jack and Sarah, make double next time Jack eats a lot.

I have enough cookery books to cook something different every day of my life, unless I live to be 100. But still end up repeating the same dozen or so basic recipes.

Not many.

We culled loads when kitchen was renovated.

We use Paprika app now. It’s really good. You can add website recipes and it downloads with the simple ingredients and directions. You can also scan own recipes or cuts out from magazines. So that now stores all our go to recipes, even many we have in the books as it’s easier to find.

Many recipe books I have kept are cake or bread baking, mainly for browsing for ideas and for Ds to look through