Cookery books

Hi

This is a very unusual request I've searched for months trying to locate this recipe - I've turned my mothers house upside down but had no luck - so I've scoured the internet & found what may be my last hope.

My mother used to have the whole collection of ‘Marshall Cavendish Supercook’ they were fantastic and she made some fab food.

One recipe I loved was a 'Tuna Quiche' it had pimentos, olives of course tuna and it's delicious I've made the quiche a couple of times but it was so long ago and I cannot lay my hands on the recipe which I'm sure I had - it's my birthday next week & I want to so much make it, is there any chance you could locate it for me and forward the recipe to me - I would be so grateful.

I wait anxiously and in hope that maybe someone out there can come to my rescue

Kind regards

I remember the Stork and the OXO cookery books. I threw them away a while ago they were in such a ragged condition. I used Katherine Whitehorn's 'Cooking in a Bedsitter' in the 60s. She knew a lot about cooking continental food which is what we have now in our supermarkets.

Keith Floyd's books have always been the most used in our house.

Glammanana, exactly my choice! Stork Margarine book and The Dairy Cookbook.

I have far too many cookery books but I cannot bear to part with any of them in case I might need a recipe from one of them ! Yes I love Nigel particularly the Kitchen Diaries, Hairy Bikers and Josceline Dimbleby has been a favourite for years. Her recipes are easy and always a bit more interesting than a lot of the classics.

Another Dairy cookbook bought from the milkman is on my shelf too - and I still use it!

I bought my Dairy cookbook from the milkman, too. It was nearly 40 years ago, just after I got married in 1973. It was my first cookbook. The only other recipe I had was from the middle of the Woman magazine, for a Christmas cake.

Now I've got shelves full of cookbooks. If I get really stuck for a good classic recipe, I go to Prue Leith's Cookery Bible.

I've got a Dairy cookery book too, bought from the milkman one Christmas about thirty odd years ago. It's lovely but the amount of butter, cream and milk would probably be considered a bit unhealthy these days. Never mind, a little bit of what you fancy...

The Dairy book of Home Cooking excellent for all basic stuff. Rose Elliots vegetarian cookery. BBCs Madhur Jafferey's Indian Cookery.

Various other veggie cook books. River Cottage Prue Leiths and Cranks.
I also have a very yellowed Bero cook book with pages falling off.

You can tell which cookery books are most useful by the amount of staining on the pages.

My favourite cook books are The OXO book of meat cookery which I've had for donkeys years and Delia's How to cheat at cooking. Agree, don't use many different recipes from them though, just a few favourites.

I have a Stork cookery book that I was given at school when I was 14. It's basic and excellent. [I was probably given it because I wasn't good at cookery ].
Coming up to 'modern times' I use Nigella a lot and the Hairy Bikers diet type book. Someone gave me a Jamie Oliver but I couldn't get on with it but I enjoy watching Nigel Slater on TV so might give him a try. I bought the cookbook of the TV series where a young girl cooked on 2 rings and held a 'restaurant' in her tiny flat in Paris from time to time. The book seems more complex than watching her in action on TV though and I need things simple!
I also have an ATDS book which was our text book at school and that's good for basics too. Many years ago when I was first married I had a SHE cookbook with picture instructions - I used that a lot but don't know what happened to it. I've got quite a few I don't use though and should really pass them on.

kittylester Isn't it funny that lots of cookery books have only one or two recipes in them that one uses regularly or is that just me

Not just you, and a piece of research was carried out which proved that (on average) people only try 4 recipes from any one cookbook!!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261941/Celebrity-recipe-books-digest.html

grannyactivist ..... we share the same "bible"
Mine was also a wedding present, around that time, and has been in use ever since for the basics that are too infrequently used to commit to memory.
I was so bereft when my original copy was ruined in a kitchen flood, that I found and bought a copy through Amazon books.

I have made the "rich Christmas cake" every year since my very first Christmas as a new hostess in my own home, and it has never failed .....in fact it impresses sufficiently that I now have to make 7 cakes, for distribution to various family.

I have a copy of The Stork Margarine cook book that belonged to my mum,a must for when you forget the ratio's for pastry and The Dairy Cook book mum bought off the milkman always inspirational for cakes and biscuits.
Of my up to the minute cook books I do love my Gino's Pasta recipe book.

I have Marshall Cavendish part works called Nice 'n' Easy which came as a monthly magazine back in late '70s. Plus a few other cook books.

I can't remember the last time I used a recipe from any of them. Or even opened one of them

I have a binder of bits from magazines and recipes friends have given me. My mum had a Be-Ro book and I was so excited to find the latest version. I love all Delia's book because they are so easy to follow and I also use the Good Housekeeping book regularly. I have lots of others that I never use but I do like to look at the pictures! When I was small my mum had a book that showed people having kedgeree and kidneys for breakfast. I thought that was what all posh people ate!

I have a pink ring binder of recipes I've cut out and used and a blue binder of the ones I haven't used yet. I do have to keep whittling away at the blue binder as I'm always adding to it. Only today I've had a cull of some of my cookery books. There's a full shelf of them and some haven't seen the light of day day for a long time. I love, love, love Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries. They're a permanent fixture by the bed. Delia's original cookery course always turns up trumps for basics and I've just discovered Gordon Ramsey's Cookery Course. Really simple tasty recipes that don't need loads of unusual ingredients. We're trying his Minced Beef Lettuce wraps for tea today. In fact I'd better go and make a start.

Bee Nilson's 'Penguin Cookery Book'. I bought my first copy in the late 1960s. When that fell apart I bought another copy and then a third. It is my vade mecum for all the basic information and recipes. I know my way around it and wouldn't be without it.

Like others I am always collection recipes from books, magazines, even online. I try them out and if they work they still get written on an index card and put in an index book. I do however have a spread sheet with them all listed to make menu planning easier.

I've still got a book from the early 70's called Poor Cook (poor as in poverty stricken, not bad ) it's full of very economical recipes for the sort of continental meals that we were beginning to hear about then.

Yes. Marguerite Patten is probably the best of the lot.

I had the Cordon Bleu Cookery Course which was slightly before supercook but the cordon bleu bit wore off once I had children. I was a bit appalled when I realised that I've got nearly 30 Italian cookery books (and that's the thinned out version!) but I have got a couple of Delia's and several french ones.

If I could only keep one it would have to be Jamie's Italian because his recipes seem to be closest to what Italians actually cook (and his quick Tiramisu is brilliant if you're in a hurry)

Supercook - all 112 parts - was published in the mid-1970s. I joined the editorial team when they had reached somewhere about M in the alphabet. There was a major miscalculation about the number of recipes required for the entire series so by the time we got to the xyz issues, we had to invent some very strange recipe titles. The recipes themselves were fine; they just had odd titles. Incidentally, every recipe in the entire collection was tested , including all the tripe recipes, on that occasion in a very tiny kitchen on an extremely hot summer's day!

A Marguerite Patten cookery book was one of my few wedding presents in 1970 and has been in constant use for basic recipes ever since. When my son left for university we scoured the charity shops until we found him one. He's a dab hand in the kitchen and also is very keen on any of Jamie Oliver's books. I have a lot of very old cookery books and enjoy resurrecting old fashioned recipes, but also have a card index for favourites.

yes vegasmags I have tattered Be-ro booklet permanently in the kitchen( other cookery books are in a IKEA bookcase). it is the second or third volume. My other favourite is a Madhar Jaffrey cookery book. I have cooked more recipies out of that than any other.

I also use the basic German cookerybook which is the standard work here and I did use it a lot but not so much now. I did a three years cookery course in the UK in the 60s and we were taught to use a recipie file box. These recipies are used by both my daughters and they have file boxes of their own, the system is unbeatable. You only put well tried recipies in it.

Crumbs jingle I had a Mollie Weir recipe - wonder what happened to that? Can't remember what it was for

I collected some cards, that had blue tops!, that came every week and then you had to buy the box and the dividers. Still use the one for pots au chocolate! It's in my folder!! I also use a recipe (much adapted) for paprika chicken that came in a book featuring all the Tonight presenters. Crumbs!