Kitchen nostalgia?

I use the Good Housekeeping cookery book - it covers everything. Sometimes I wonder why I ever got another cookery book. Having said that, I still have a large number of Family Circle magazines with some really useful recipes in, and a little leaflet I got as a freebie when I got married which was published by Moulinex, to promote their gadgets, but the recipes were from Good Housekeeping -all very delicious.

Not all cookery books are good. I was given one as a wedding present called "Cooking on a shoestring". Not one of the recipes was any good, and some were downright disgusting - I chucked the book away in the end.

I have " A Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium" given to me by my Mum and Dad for Christmas 1958. It is in use nearly all the time and was invaluable as it has pictures, black and white, of what your finished dish should look like. The most recent one is not a patch on my old one. I also have a Stork book, " The Art of Home Cooking", falling to pieces, but carefully taped together. I won it whilst at school, probably around 1955/6.
My Hamlyn " All Colour Cook Book" , circa 1970, is another used regularly, and I only realised fairly recently that Mary Berry was a co-author. I live cookery books, and they come and go, but these three are favourites.

It has to be the Bero Cookbook...my Mother had two versions of it, my daughter has them now, still in use.

I still use the cookery book that came with my Mother's brand spanking new Jackson Cooker in 1963...before that she always cooked on a 'range'.

"The Pauper's Cookbook" by Jocasta Innes.

Not only did she give lots of very exciting recipes, but she had such an exotic name! We ate like princes...

I have one that my gran had (I don't think she intended me to have it - I'm not sure how I ended up with it) - the cover has come off, but I believe it's a Good Housekeeping one from the 60's. It has such delights as boiled calves head - complete with picture - not great viewing for a veggie. It also has adverts at the back of the book, don't think I have used any of the recipes, a lot of them seem to contain aspic and the cakes have angelica as the main decorations.... hmmmmm very appertising.

I also have the Stork book 'The Art of Home Cooking'. Still use many of the recipes despite having it since 1967. Good straightforward recipes. When the cover came off DH had it recovered with a hard cover for me.

I have a handwritten recipe book which my nana wrote copying out her mum's recipes (so my great grans really). The problem is my GG had 13 children so the quantities are rather large. My mum always told how she decided to make the Christmas Bread one year and finished up mixing it a huge enamel bowl usually used as the baby bath.

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