Dairy Cook Book

I remember them and have a very old one. I also have a well kept thick booklet from the Milk Marketing Board, The Cheese Board and one from the Fisheries Board. The cheese and fisheries boards may not be the titles they used but were similar to the MMB booklet. Mum used to always get the Dairy Diary from Norman Jump, our milkman.

Not seen a milkman in years, or a newspaper boy either, both vanished from my corner of the UK.

I uaws ro use this book as a teenager have just ordered the anniversary version from Amazon

Typing in bed without my glasses never works. Post should read "used this book as a"

Norman Jump, now there’s a name to conjure with!

My DM always used a Dairy Diary and I did until we moved house and no longer have a milkman. Our lives are so random that having a set supply of milk doesn’t work anymore. I don’t think we use so much as we used to now calories and cholesterol have come into our lives.

I still have my ‘Dairy Cook Book’ and also the old Bero baking cook book which is brilliant. My most used book, however, is a Mary Berry I was given in 1977 as an engagement present. The pictures are dated and pretty ‘seventies’ but all the recipes, proportions, timings and temperatures still work.

I had the book remember getting it near Christmas from our milkman, don’t know where it went. Sadly don’t have a milkman anymore.
When the children were very little midweek he would leave me eggs, bread as well as milk was always useful.

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Yes indeed. Norman had a brother, Trevor Jump who was our postie. I remember dating him when he was previously in the Navy and mum always banged with a slipper on her bedroom floor if he was still in the house at 11pm. She'd yell down, 'Goodbye Trevor' every few minutes. Embarassing.

How lovely to hear other people love this book. I got it with money from a college prize in 1970 and learned to cook with this and my favourite "The Pauper's Cook Book" by Jocasta Innes, now much stained & selloptaped together!

I used to have a dairy cookbook and loved it but had to sling it out eventually.
Another old favourite - Mary Berry's Fast Cakes was replaced with a newer edition after the old one got so bad it was falling apart.

Funnily enough I 'd just been looking at the Dairy Diary e-mail. I don't chuck stuff away so I've still got Bathsheba's 1983 version and an earlier 1977 version. Used to be very useful.
Margaret Patten was the cookery writer of the day when I got married so still got and use some of them too.
Prefer the older cook books as we're not really into the spicy or exotic. Old stick in the muds us.

I loved that book, the recipes were so straight forward and clear photographs. I used it all the time. When I got engaged in 1968 my Dad bought me Mrs Beetoon Book of Home Management. It was huge.

It was used practically every day and is falling to bits now. It devoted pages to the different cuts of meat, fruit and vegetables. It also had healthy eating and menu planning. It had a two week menu which consisted of three heavy meals a day with lunch and dinner followed by a dessert,

Best of all how to manage your house, cleaning silver, polishing furniture, organising your day and managing servants.

The Bero Cookbook which I still have and belonged to my mother.

yes i always ordered the dairy diaries every year but sadly lost them after my divorce, i also had the good housekeeping step by step cook book - this was given when we bought our engagement and wedding rings. Luckily i have been able to replace this and was luckily enough to win a copy of the 2012 dairy book of home cookery, but my most treasured cook book is a good housekeeping cookery compendium published in 1954 by the good housekeeping institute. its still in its delivery box and was passed to me by my nan when i was 11, i am now in my 60's. it has wonderful recipes such as jugged hare!

I also bought a Good Housekeeping cookery book when I got married in 1969. I still refer to it if I want basic instructions but tend to use the Internet for recipes now, in particular the BBC food pages. Yet I have a shelf full of cookery books including the Be-Ro one which I do use regularly. My brother has my mother’s GH book from the 50’s and I loved it. Black and white photos on every page and some wonderful suggestions as to what the store cupboard should have to fall back on.

I still have the family one also farmhouse kitchen books,a programme that was on that my mum loved to watch so I bought her each of the books,one has a lovely banana bread recipe only trouble is who I make it I have to do one for a few neighbours as well,they bring me the bananas lol. Have said I would let them have the recipe but so far not been taken up on it

KatyK I got married in 1969 and my Mum bought me that book - and I still refer to it. Simple and straightforward recipes - it's been my standby for nearly 50 years.

Dairy Diary is still available and they have relaunched the cook book too

Wow that was our first cookery book too - and the one most used when we set up home at 19/20years old The first copy got so manky with results of our ingredients. The second copy somehow was never as special - although we have given our DD this book for her home.

Have both the dairy cook books and buy dairy diary every year from Amazon as I don't have milk delivered. Love them all

You can get original "The Dairy Book of Home Cooking" for as little as 52p on amazon.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dairy-Book-Home-Cookery/dp/0900543418/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=The+Dairy+Book+of+Home+Cooking&tag=gransnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1541328127&sr=8-3

Oh Mully, The Paupers Cook Book. I got through 2 copies of that both as an impoverished student and ditto wife! My Dairy Book is a 1968 edition and still on my shelf of cookery books I actually use rather than just browse.

Jalima it may be worth a try going to the Milk and More web site, you may find you have a milk delivery in your area. Only say this as boyfriend said the same to me that his area did not have such a thing, so lo and behold his man is Dave.
It may help save the planet a little, the bottles are recycled 20 times. Cheers Carol? PS The A5 dairy is lovely this year too.

The new Dairy Diary is on sale on their website, £8.50, the website is brilliant with lots of recipes to choose from and a list of their latest cookery books. Just put Dairy Diary in Google and you'll see it there.

We did try Carolpaint but they proved to be very unreliable and the other thing was they would deliver the next day's milk at 11.30 pm the previous evening and after a hot night with it sitting outside we weren't too happy about using it.