Dairy Cook Book

I remember the Dairy Cookbook, I also bought it from my milkman in my first year of marriage. Have absolutely no idea where it is now though.

I too remember having one of those books which I loved with their easy to follow recipes. I've looked in charity book shops but to no avail. I never knew what had happened to that book as it was my favourite among others.
I love the old cookery books.

My Dairy cookbook went to my DD after she got married, along with the Cadburys's chocolate cookbook and my WI book. She made good use of them, so I suppose they went to a good home.

I used it only yesterday to double check the quantities for scones. Great book!

How much does it cost please?
I'm going to text my milkman

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I’ve still got mine from years ago when the children were small. I’ve also got the Dairy Book of British Food. Use them both regularly.

I've still got mine and don't use it so much now.

I loved the Dairy Diary and still use a couple of recipes torn from those - DH's favourite is Father's Day Steak!! The diaries helped to keep our lives running smoothly. They had all sorts of information in.

Oh yes I used to get the Dairy Diary every year too kitty. I cut loads of the recipes out at the end of the year and stuck them in scrap books.

Read the title as Dirty Cook Book! I was quite intrigued to see the recipes...lol

I still have mine and a friend who is a good cook was so taken with it that I promised to order a copy for her - only to find it was not obtainable. At the time I was relieved that I hadn't given her my copy!
In fact, I haven't used it much lately, but it's there if I do want to and I must let my friend know.

Thank you Hilltopgran

we don't have a milkman

When I got married in 1969, my mum bought me a cookbook from the milkman. It was called The Dairy Book of Home Cooking, as I recall. I loved it

I still have the first Dairy Book of Home Cooking.(1968). My 2 daughters (49 & 51) liked it so much they managed to get their own ( second hand) copies when they got married. I see there is now a 50th Anniversary Dairy Book of Home Cooking available.

I wish I still had my granny’s & my aunties old Bero baking books.

I didn’t have The Dairy Book but I do still have the Bero book. I made pancakes with my grandson recently and used the Bero book recipe. To my astonishment they were quite tasteless compared to what we buy in the supermarket. Then the light dawned on me. The manufacturers of pancakes have been adding sugar to them over the years. So now we are used to sweet pancakes.

Oh yes! I used that book a lot but not sure what’s happened to it. Probably lost in a house move along with Larousse Gastronomique which I was bought and NEVER used, unlike the Dairy one. We don’t have a milkman any more. I wonder if it’s available anywhere else?

I have a Be-Ro book that my mother in law gave me when we got married 35 years ago, and a collection of Dairy Diaries that I accumulated over the years.

I still make the Dairy Diary Pina Colada cheesecake, which is a killer on calories but absolutely lush!

I also have a collection of Marks & Spencer cookery books from the 1980s which I still use regularly - again, barely a passing nod to healthy cooking lol, but delicious

Dairy Diaries - good old Amazon!
www.amazon.co.uk/Dairy-Diary-2018-Week-View/dp/1911388037?tag=gransnetforum-21

I got one as a wedding present !! Got rid of the husband many years ago, but still got the book

Oh I loved the Dairy Diary, my Mum bought it for me every year, and I dont know where they are,I would never throw them away, they are probably in the removal boxes still, since we moved five years ago, now thats a thought I must find them.Thank you for jogging my memory.

I was given a Dairy Cookbook as an engagement present in 1968 and still use it now, although it has been taped together many times and has a variety of stains throughout. I also have the Dairy Book of Family Cookery from 1983 marking the 50th anniversary of the Milk Marketing Board, not quite as dog eared as the first one but still well loved. Wonderful books.

Legs, the The Dairy Book of Home Cookery, costs £11.99. Available from www.dairydiary.co.uk or from Milkman.

I have just looked on Amazon, and there are several second-hand copies of the Dairy Book of Home Cookery including one from 1997 for the princely sum of 50p plus postage

I have a collection of these.
I get them from charity shops or amazon.
Have some pre metric.
Some changes are made over the years as we change our habits and become familiar with "foreign" food.
The bigger dairy cookery books are very good also , I have a lot of those too.
Can't beat the A5 diary sized one in my opinion.