Cookery books

Oh, I hadn't realised it was an old thread. 2013! I'd make a terrible witness in court, wouldn't I?

Welcome square dog! there is a thread on here what’s for dinner today. It makes you hungry reading everyone’s plans for their evening meal I think you will enjoy it.

Neither did I!

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Mary Berry. I have all her books and find I don’t need any others. Of course they’re more recent than some others that posters have kept for many years but Mary is my go to! I love her programmed and website as well.

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Nothing to do with cookery Books annsixty but I visited Marika Hanbury Tenison's home a couple of times in the 90's. She had died quite young (cancer? can't remember) and her husband had re married. I think it was an old friend of her's that he married and the house had been kept completely unchanged. Every flat surface was covered with souvenirs from their travels. Heaven knows how she ever managed to cook - there wasn't an inch of clear space.

Marika Hanbury Tenison

I know this post is ten years old but just wanted to say that I used her Christmas cake recipe for many years and it was very good. I'd found it in a magazine.

Rather than have bulky cookbooks cluttering up my limited space, I make use of the internet where I can find any recipe for any dish.

As you can tell from my name I love cooking and baking. I did have a very large collection of cookery books including the Cordon Bleu and Supercook ones. However I have managed to cull them down and now Mary Berry, Delia Smith, Marguerite Patterson and Alistair Hendry are my favourites.

I got frustrated with having to buy lots of expensive ingredients which I never used again, and many of the recipes didn’t work, so hadn’t been tested!
I do go on the internet occasionally, but nothing beats flicking through a cookery book and salivating over the photos🤣

The charity shops don't want them and they'd only get pulped, such a shame.

I know. It’s going to pain me, but a lot of people are getting rid of things, not looking to get more, so I am getting mine collected by a charity who sells things abroad. I’d rather give them away, as I doubt the charity will get much of a cut, but I just want rid of them now.

We've hundreds of cookery books - I now pass them out to our daughters and GC as gifts. They 'say' they're pleased - and we're less cluttered.

Mine have flatly refused to take them . They are much better than I was at turning down the opportunity to relieve me of my unwanted stuff. I always felt obliged to accept graciously, but they just say ‘no thanks’ and stick to it.