Favourite old recipe book that you still use?

This is the Margaret Patten one I got 42 years ago.
It is falling to bits, it has been used so much.

Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katherine Whitehorn circa 1968.
It cost me all of 3/6 and contained the only pertinent advice regarding whether to serve red or white wine I have ever needed

“White wine goes with carpets, red wine only with floors you can wipe clean or don’t need to care about”
Adding helpfully
“Basically play to the carpet rule unless you’re quite sure you are entertaining non-spillers”

My favourite is Marguerite Patten's "Cookery in Colour". I bought a new copy in a discount sale (for £2) almost 40 years ago nd still use it today. Some of the recipes are a little old fashioned but the traditional baking, soups, supper dishes and especially the things like meat roasting times have always been invaluable.

I bought a second hand copy on Amazon a few years ago for my daughter - second hand it cost me £3.95!

In the early '60s, when I was in my first job, I would listen to an early morning BBC Scotland show 'Morning Call' in which a very Aberdonian cook, Janet Murray would give Scottish recipes and I still have the book that accompanied her talks. I still use her shortbread recipe which has the usual ingredients but instead of rubbing in the butter, melts it instead. It has always been appreciated. One that sounds revolting is 'potted heid' -ie cow's head. Don't ask! Gingerbread made with beer sounds enticing but I haven't tried it in all these years!

I have the Good Housekeeping book that my mother gave me in the early 70s when I was first married.

Shysal Cookery in Colour was my first cookery book - DH bought it for me just after we got married, more in hope than expectation I think! I still have it but don’t bring it out much as it is showing all of its fifty one years of wear and tear, (yours looks positively pristine compared to mine!) but I have a lot to thank it for!

Be-Ro and Milk Marketing Board. Both very tatty now and still used but not often these days.

There is a book that got lost I miss, well one recipe really.

If I remember correctly the book was a M&S microwave book from the early 80's. The recipe was for a microwave Honey Topped Cheesecake. We don't need the calories but the DD's and a few friends still ask if I'll make it. Tried similar recipes but not the same. Oh Well that's life.

I have the Good Housekeeping recipe book which was a wedding present over 40 years ago. I used it regularly when my DDs were growing up, and I recently bought each of them a copy which I found on eBay. They both loved it as it brought back happy memories of favourite meals, and I believe they both still use it.

Cookery in Colour edited by Marguerite Patten is still my most used recipe book. Looks a bit worse for wear!

I still have my Marguerite Patten Everyday Cook Book which I dip into now and again - my mother gave it to me one Christmas soon after I was married - got lots of grease spots etc on it now and the spine is sellotaped up!

I too have my trustee old Milk Marketing Board cookbook!

Family Circle' International Cookery course' 1971, falling to pieces but still used. The recipe for Black Forest Gateau suggests using a tin of cherry pie filling in place of bottled morello cherries.
I have my 1905 copy of my grandmother's 'Mrs. Beeton', which I don't use very much, but it is awfully useful when I need to confirm the duties of the parlour maid.

I have a Be-Ro baking book which is very well thumbed and a Good Housekeeping cookery book I've had for a fair few years.

Mrs Beeton’s Cookery and Household Management was given to me before we got married 48 years ago. There are several torn pages, sellotaped up, and various cookery stains. It has been well used over the years and is still to this day. Sitting next to it on the kitchen bookshelf is the Good Housekeeping Cookbook, almost as ancient and just as well thumbed. Many others jostle for space on the shelf, but they all look pristine next to these two old friends.

My good housekeeping 1975 version and a battered copy of campbells condensed soup reipe booklet

I have the Farmhouse Kitchen cookery book too hilda. I love to see the names of the ladies who contributed the recipes and wonder about their homes and kitchens. Probably long gone by now, but a nice thing to be remembered for.

I've got Mum's Mrs Beeton which was one of her wedding presents in 1939. Her own notations and friend's recipes are written in the margins and on any spare piece of unprinted page. I've tried many of her own recipes as well as Mrs Beetons !

Another one I have is my mother's "Lofty Peak" flour cookbook. I made coconut cakes from it last week and my children loved them.

Be Ro. My first one was not colour it was sepia. I have bought several over the years because I have given my own copy to someone.

I have a Good Housekeeping cookery compendium that belonged to my Grandmother. I believe it is 1954 edition which is the year I was born. I do use it and there are several hand written recipes tucked inside by her and my Mother.

DD got my copy of the Farmhouse Kitchen cookery book. I have a Cumberland and Westmoreland WI book from the 1970's that I still use regularly, and an ancient Be-Ro book.

Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery book was given to me as a wedding present 45 years ago and the smudges and stains on the pages are testimony to the number of times I've gone back to it. It shows all the different cuts of meat and the best ways of cooking them. Not seen that in any of the modern cookery books.

I’m another for Marguerite Patten everyday cookbook,I bought it when I married 47 years ago and still use it regularly.

I often use a set called Farmhouse Kitchen, there was a tv programme of same name on at lunchtimes. Simple recipes, no fancy ingredients.

I've one produced by a Scottish monastery to raise funds ,I've had it since I was married and used it until its falling apart ,it has a Beef Stroganoff recipe thats more of a stew but the flavour is fab