Cook book addicts !!

i've got the dairy cookbook too - bought it from the milkman so many years ago. it's very well used and has other recipes tucked into it. it lives in the kitchen where it's handy to look at.
i've also got two newer versions which i bought from amazon - they live on the cook book shelves in the dining room with books by nigella, james martin, the hairy bikers and many others including the readers digest book arranged month by month and several more.
other cook books are on another shelf halfway up the stairs.
you can definately say i'm a cook book addict!

DD1 likes Nigella so I've bought tickets for an appearance she's doing near us at the end of Oct. Your ticket gets you £10 off the book so I thought it would be a nice surprise for her.

The book has been panned by the critics.......Oh dear.

When I left home at 16 my mum gave me the good housekeeping cook book which became my bible for 40 years. I still refer to it for basics . I collected a number of cook books over the years but now only use three yottam ottolenghi books. The meal prep is usually very lengthy and the kitchen needs cleaning after I've finished and the washing up is horrendous. But the food is divine.

I'm just off to get Jamie's 5 ingredients book. I also find him a bit irritating, but he's a nice lad with very good intentions, so I will forgive him for saying 'incredible flavour' ten times per minute!
I have dozens of cook books, and decided not to buy more because of the easy availability of recipes online. However, as I print them all out and keep them, my neat shelves of.books were being replaced by tatty loose-leaf binders, so it's back to books for me.

Before I was married I collected Super cook - a magazine collection with binders - 8 volumes in hotel. I've still got it but rarely use it. I like the 3 Hairy Dieters books which I have and also use recipes from magazines.

Anyone got the 1970s little cheese recipie book that also came from the milkman ( I think). The recipe for cheese soufflé was so easy and very impressive!
Also OXO did a spiral meat cookery book. These two were my go to books, when I was newly married.

I've got his 30 minute book and use that. It is probably worth trying some recipies he's posted on line before you buy.

Anyone tried Jamie's 5 ingredients book? I like that idea..

Yes! I love them. I also tear out the recipes from Good Housekeeping and file them in months. They go back to the early 1980s. I use them constantly so they aren't a waste of space.

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I have quite a few cookery books. One of my oldest ones is 'Vogue's Cookery Book' which was a collection of recipes that appeared in the magazine between the two world wars. According to the introduction "It sets a standard of cooking - the Vogue standard - which is outside the limitations of time"
My Dairy Book of Home Cooking is now a family treasure - has been passed onto my DD who has promised to pass it on!

My mum bought me the Dairy Book of Home Cooking from the milkman when we got married in 1969. I no longer have it. However, we have stacks of cook books 99% of which we never use - Jamie, Delia, Hairy Bikers, Madhur Jaffrey, Rick Stein, that chef with the spikey hair whose name I can't recall, as well as many others picked up over the years, Italian French, Chinese, English......

I used to have the Dairy book of home cooking until DD borrowed it. I have several by the Hairy Bikers, Madhur Jeffrey, but my go to book is the Cumbria WI book. It's very battered now, as I've had it since we were married.

Oh yes,I too have the dairy book of home cooking ...great little recipes in it...haven't opened it up in a while....

Ooh I too have the Dairy book of home cooking. I was given the Good Housekeeping cookery book for a 21st birthday present which became my 'Bible'. So much so that I bought both my children an up to date copy when they left home with an inscription thanking them for all the lovely family meals we shared together and that it was now over to them.....! I am also a huge fan of Delia and Mary. Like most people I also nowadays get a lot of recipes from the internet and from magazines.

Just got nigella 'at my table'...looks good, am bookmarking what to make this weekend lol

I used to love the magazine called Home and Freezer Digest (I think!) and I still is the scone and mince pie recipes from it. And, lots from the Dairy Diaries.

One of my very first cookery books was the Dairy book of home cooking which was purchased through the milkman and i still use recipes from it today. My mother did not approve of the alcoholics cook book a friend gave me. All the recipes contain alcohol in some form it's not a cook book for alcoholics!

Jocylen Dimbleby is VG, as is Len Deighton.

Just remembered..fell asleep in the bath with Nigel Slater!
Had to replace him (Real Cooking)

Persiana (Sabrina Ghayour) and Two Kitchens (Rachel Roddy) are my latest two.
Had a clearout in January and gave at least 50 to local charity shop----Bought most of them back again in Feb

I have around 100 cookery books Prue Leith from the 80's,Gary Rhodes ,Larrousse Gastronomique ,Nick Nairns New Scottish Cookery and Richard Cawleys New English cookery ,a few Rick Stein,a few Jamie Oliver( all were presents) ONE Mary Berry given to me last year by someone who doesn't know me well enough to know I'm not a fan ,Roselyn Masselin 's Vegetarian are all one' s I use fairly regularly ,the one I drool over is Thomas Kellers French Laundry ,its a beautiful book ,not for begginers and I think I've only cooked from it a handful of times.Cookery books are my husbands go to for Christmas so I get at least one every year ,along with perfume,good brandy and some CD's .I have a fantastic book of medieval recipes that I have used a lot over the years and love

ps I forgot, another series I loved - beautiful photos - was the Australian Women's Weekly series. I lent them to someone and they were never returned.

I have a very ancient Mary Berry Cookbook illustrated by Dorling Kindersley.
Every type of recipe is in that book, and I used it all the time for years.
It still sits on the shelf, battered and faded, but useful sometimes to check on something.
Like Imperfect I weigh and measure by eye nowadays.
Love cooking and get all new recipes on line.

I used to have a huge selection, but lost most of them during a house move. I can't remember them all, but they included an old Mrs Beeton, and an interesting one of wartime recipes.
I still have a few, and the one I treasure most is Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cookery. It includes a lot of social history, and is more about cooking styles, than actual recipes (but has those as well.)
I've also got an interesting one about traditions and variations of bread around the world.

The one I have is the St Michael All Colour Cookery Book by Jeni Wright - first received as a present in 1981 I think. I have found the meat cooking tables in it really useful and the choux buns became one of my family legendary puds!

I very rarely get books off the shelf now - more inclined to look up new trends of cooking online and the old favourites are lodged firmly in my brain so not a lot of weighing and measuring either - much more by eye, but when I have time I like to find a brand new recipe to try.