GBBO 4th thread - Will it be Ruby Tuesday in Final Week?..

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...or will Kim Joy claim the title? Will Rahul nail it with a bake they DO have in India?

It’s anyone’s to lose.

Nigella 's quick pea soup recipe using frozen peas is a staple in our house.

Wheeerrrrrrrrrrarrrrrreeyyyyaaa?

Where arre ya?????

Lessssssss beeeeeee avinnnn ya!

Why didn't she admit the corporate hospitality was fab and she was pissed out of her brain?

the creme brulee in a big dish , the slow roast lamb salad with pomegranates , chicken with 40 cloves of garlic and her way of making potato dauphinoise .... and more I think !

She had a t-shirt with "Let's be having EU" on the march. She's a good egg.

I bought a new Be Ro book this week! (After my daughter pinched my original and the removal men lost the replacement one - three years ago). I didn't know anyone else even KNEW about Be Ro. Oh happy day!

Coffee Kisses anyone?

NEW Bero? Mine is from just after the war (from mums home economics class).

Ah, now Delia's is the one book that does get opened in our house, because it's so foolproof. And, with me cooking, it needs to be.

book - I've got the Dairy book too! Also from our milkwumman (we are very progressive here). I'd forgotten about it, but I remember loving it when I first got it - I'll have to have a dig about on my shelf of 1,000 Unopened Cookbooks.

From what I remember it had lots of little interesting snippets, too. (You know the sort of thing - "In the 18 century it was widely believed that the purpose of teeth was to stop your gums from fraying, and so they tried to strengthen them with this delicious posset made out of hen's claws and rennet, in order to prevent unravelling of the mouth.") I love stuff like that.

My first Be-Ro book fell to bits with use (it was my mam's) and I think the one I've got now (also well-thumbed, and smeared with jam and cake mix) is the 27th edition (20-somethingth, anyway). I LUFFS it!

Fuzzy - I got a Be-Ro book from ebay a few years ago. My Mum had one , but dear sister inherited it ......

youngsters using t'internet will never have the joy of opening ( carefully peeling apart ) the pages with splattered batter and floury thumbprints on the best recipe pages

Or the joy of pulling a book from the highest bookshelf and dropping it on your toe and then trying not to swear so as not to wake up the dogs and then watching in horror your toenail turning slowly black.

Or maybe that's me.

Ooh I have Hugh FernleyWernley’s Every Day and use it erm not every day.

But there’s a bloody nice baked curry recipe in it we eat a lot.

And cookbooks are usually heavy beasts.

I can see the scene as though I was there myself book - you and Sister in the solicitor's office . . . the will is read . . . the Book goes to . . . whoever wants it the MOST . . . there is a tense two-hour negotiation - no-one caves . . . it comes down to a duel . . . rolling pins - sharpened- are produced . . . the Battle Royal starts . . .

. . . in less than a minute the walls of the office are covered in skin and hair, but still, the battle rages - tragically an hour in book slips in a pool of her own blood . . . Sister is VICTORIOUS and carries off her prize in joyful triumph. Book accepts defeat with a quiet dignity, resolving to go NC . . . terrified solicitor emerges from under desk and resigns from the Law Society, retiring to Wales to breed racing sheep . . .

That's what happened, isn't it book? Please tell me IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

A good recipe is worth losing a toenail for Chardonnay's

New Be Ro books are £2.99 from Be Ro's website. Bargain. (Although the Coffee Kisses are now mocha Kisses but I shall forgive them that.
We need a new thread...

Definitely not worthy of the latest GBBO oeuvre.

But I like Schady's take on the bookbook book fight better.

Someone cleverer than me start a new thread QUICK PLEASE.

Not sure how to link

thread title

To Be-Ro or not to Be-Ro . . . that is the question

Does this work?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/3411662-To-Be-Ro-or-not-to-Be-Ro-that-is-the-question

Yes it works! Hurrah!

And now I am finishing the thread with some blue icing and a slime pond.