If you HAD to give away all of your recipe books and was only allowed to keep one which one would it be?

[LauraNorder]

Just wondering which books are people's bibles!

I have 91 Cookbooks... i just cant whittle it down that much!

Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion - not my most used, but so comprehensive.

Nigel Slater's 30 minute cook

and Ken Hom's Hot Wok if I get a second

Ken hom's Thai cookery book. Use it at least twice each week.

The school exercise book in which I have written all the nice recipes I have come across in life since doing cookery at school. (ie those that are not from an official cookbook).

If it has to be a published cookbook, it would be a toss up between "30 minute recipes" and Marguerite Patten's jam and preserve making book.

Katie Stewart's Cookbook - rather 1980s but full of recipes that work.
I've recently inherited my mother's late 60s Dairy Cookbook so will revisit some of those recipes.

I agree Teanadcakeplease Goodhousekeeping's got everything in and used all the time, here.

Hi Tacp

another vote for nigellas's 'feast'

Nigella's 'How to Eat' definitely. I absolutely love it, love the wordiness of it and really enjoy reading it as well as cooking from it. It's definitely my desert island cookbook. Kitchen Diaries a close second.

I would say Nigel Slater (either Appetite or Real Fast Food) but I pretty much know them by heart anyway

So perhaps Nigella How to Eat or possibly Nigel's Kitchen Diaries.

I've got Kitchen Diaries and find it completely uninspiring tbh.

A while back I would have said a Nigel Slater one, but my new fave is Economy Gastronomy. 'Tis a work of genius.

Faites vos patisseries by Gaston Lenotre, because it's the only book I managed to find with a perfect apple flan recipe in it. It's now out of print, and costs a fortune but it's super. It's designed for commercial kitchens, so he assumes everyone has a bucket of egg custard to hand, but the recipes work. The only downside is that there aren't enough pictures in it, and I don't know what all the cakes should look like.

Also, a little paperback aga book by Caroline Blakely which is miles better than the Mary Berry one that you are given with a new aga. It has really useful tables giving gas/electric setting with the 2 and 4 oven equivalents, and lots of useful tips, too.

madhur jaffreys curry bible or madhur jaffreys world vegetarian (even though i'm not vege i use this book all the time...)

Delia's Complete Cookery Course

Nigel Slater is the one I go back to all the time as the recipes are easy and usually don't have too many ingredients. I've got a few off by heart now for quick suppers for me and the kids.

Ooohhhhhh
HaEd to say. I have so many. Maybe the primrose bakery cupcake book or real fast food.

Meant to say hard.
Dyslexic hands today!!

A recent purchase called Rotis by Stephane Reynaud. DS and DH would lynch me if I got rid of it .

Babber - I love World Vegetarian too.

What are your favourite recipes?

i read it more than I cook from it but what I have made, has been good.

Ottolenghi's 'Plenty' she says innocently as she stuffs Delia's Veg Cook book and Sarah Raven's Garden cookbook up her jumper and hopes Laura doesn't notice.... :)

rachel allen's homemade food. i love it!

My original Be-Ro cookery book that I got from senior school

All the baics and the wonderful cheese and marmite swirls - even though I can't stand the stuff