which is your all time ole fav cook book

[Ivykaty44]

thats it who is your fav?
mine would have to be deliha, for getting me to cook. I have other books I now use, but I know that she was my first real cook book that I knew would work and being a novice this helped me continue cooking.

The receipe book that has the most splashes over it is the BBC Good Food Magazine 101 One Pot Receipe's Best £4 I spent

not old but most used, nicely encrusted with ghosts of past attempts

Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook

Mrs Beeton.

Good for keeping doors open too.

none
i coudlnt commit to one

delias complete cookery
I need a new copy as ours is so well used

Prue Leith's Cookery Bible. Has a bit of everything from roasting times, how to make yorkshire's right up to posh dinner party dishes etc. i have loads of others, but that's the one i constantly refer to.

Marguerite Patten's Cookery in Colour. Was my mum's and everytime I look at it it takes me back to my childhood and helping mum bake (after mum gave it to me I found a voucher that permitted mum an extra milk 'ration' for DB when he was a baby). It has all the basics like the cuts of meat and their uses and methods of cooking, basics like yorkshire pudding and scones as well as jam and bread. Hideous photographs that make everything look utterly vile and unappetising! But I'm even quite fond of that now

joliediane, I've got that book and I don't think I've ever cooked anything from it!

I'm going to have a betetr look at it today

nigella express is fantastic, i have used loads of recipies from there and most of the ingredients are easy to get from the supermarket too.
Her rocky road is amazing and i get requests to bring it to other peoples dinner parties!

My mums Bero cookery book is great for baking cakes etc.., she passed it on to me as she is an expert now!

m&s babies and toddler cook book has been a lifesaver for recipies for teas that whole family can eat and everything i have made so far has been yummy!

Orm, we've got Cookery in Colour too - known in this house as 'Cooking for Martians' because of the amazing colour pics on coloured paper But it is a really useful book - I use that one, the Katie Stewart Sunday Times cookery book and the Constance Spry cookbook more than anything else, probably again because they were all the books my Mum used when I was little.

Delia's Complete Cookery Course. I have my late grandpa's old copy, which is now about 500 loose pages kept within a battered hardback cover. But if I want a definitive recipe for anything, that's where I look.

But I read Nigella's 'How To Eat' for inspiration, ideas and generally getting in the zone .

Mine at the moment is " How to cook good food for the family with very little money" it was about £2.50 and it has turned me into a cooking GODESS.
Tonight i made home made fish cakes out of it, even dh ate them and said mmmm and he is a fussy arse.

I make a plum cake out of it every sunday and it lasts me all week and tis delish.
made some home made chicken nuggets out of it last week and on saturday night i made my first ever chicken curry from scratch from a recipe in it.

There are no funny ingredients, its all dead DEAD basic, explained well and so so SO easy.
I am nearly 40 and have never cooked properly until & since i weened ds who is now nearly 7.
I love it