Does anyone have a BeRo book?

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I used to have a BeRo recipie book and I cannot find it anywhere. I want to make the strawberry jam muffins. Could anyone link me to a pic if they have it?

Mine has a recipe for something called Milk Fadge.

Can you post the recipe @MrsSchadenfreude You may be laughing but if that's a bread recipe I miss it. Far nicer than a stottie.

My version is knackered. I made the Milk Chocolate Cake just last week for DH's birthday. With the Milk Chocolate Icing. Classic 😋

@Lordfrontpaw That's the one I've got. Was my grandma's

You’ve sent me looking for mine! Going to make melting moments tomorrow.

I have 40th edition so no emergency bread recipe - could someone please post it?

This is exactly the sort of lovely thread we need at a time like this!

There’s something so very comforting about the BeRo book isn’t there - it’s a brand bursting with love and family life.

I probably being thick but what does BeRo mean? Does it come from anything or just a made up trade name?

It’s a brand of flour.

Shortened from “Bells Royal”, the original company name.

Thank you. Bells Royal sounds terribly posh.

It does, doesn’t it. They must have been trying to make it sound cosier!

I’ve got my own copy and my Mum’s copy too. I remember one of the first things I made when I was about nine, was a batch of Coffee Kisses!

I could do with some Milk Fadge now!

@MrsSiba it's the 34th edition and if you search for bero book and then the image you might find someone selling one.

Here's an old listing which has some beautiful pictures from the inside!

www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Ro-Self-Raising-Plain-Flour-Recipes/dp/B00F3ZPU70

My mum gave me the 39th edition when I left home for Uni and it's now in its 41st edition and you can purchase from the Be-ro website.

I was always desperate to make these! But no. Far, far too decadent for the 1970's north east!

I'm trying to work out what vintage my mums is, but can't find any images of the front cover that look right (it's at her house so I can't check). She was married in 1974 so it probably dates from around then, I looked at the 35th edition but that's too modern, there is I've 1970s edition I saw that looks too old. It's going to annoy me now. That was one of the books that taught me to bake, along with the Homepride one and Marguerite Patton.

I'm very tempted to buy one of my own. There's several on eBay...

Perhaps you can help me? My mum didn't have a BeRo book but did have several others and there's one I can picture but can't recall what it was called. I'm thinking she bought books from our milkman but might be wrong in that! It wasn't dairy diary but she did have those. It was a small paperback style book, wider that A5 it had a 'cartoon' drawing on the front of a family of eggs driving along in their egg box car. I'm sure the mum had a head scarf on! I'd love to find it but don't know what to google.

Unless you particularly want a vintage one, buy the new one from the BeRo website where it is £2.99 including postage. The ones on Ebay are more expensive.

@gretchen The 34th edition is apparently 1974 (my birth year) and they seem to publish them every 4/5 years or so if the 34/35th isn't familiar your childhood version may have been a much earlier version passed down.

33rd edition is the second image. 32nd is the first image (cute!)

@LordFrontPaw l have that one! l have a newer edition as well, but l'm pretty sure the sepia one was my grandmas.

It's the 33rd! She must have had it for home ec or something. I also remember her having a McDougalls one.

Mine is the 34th. My grandmother gave it to me when I left home. I absolutely treasure it. The milk chocolate cake is a staple in our house
I might make chocolate spice cake later on, that's a very nice recipe too

I have 2 BeRo books - the first has the milk chocolate cake (which both dh and I grew up having as birthday cakes despite living at opposite ends of the country) but has lost the cover so I have no idea what edition it’s is.

The second is a newish edition and has no milk chocolate cake so it mostly ignored

I have the centenary bero book, I love it! Partly for the nostalgia and partly for the more "interesting" recipes 😂 tuna and egg pastie anyone?
I was baking with it this weekend, me and my 4 year old made biscuits which is lovely as I remember baking with this with my mum at the same age ❤️

Oo one never noticed the jam muffin recipe either. I've the newest edition and one from sometime in the last 15 years.

It gets a fair bit of use. :)

My mum still has her 1960s one I think.

One 😅😅

I've.

One is not the Queen.