Recipes and cookbooks

    No pictures of the finished dish, but I can give you a link to the recipe I used for supper last night, and I can thoroughly recommend it because it was wonderful!
    I've made this dish before but not in quite the way given by Lindsey Bareham, and her method (though I was sparing with the olive oil) made it sublime, so I'll be doing it all again soon.

                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On to recipe books, and Abebooks are conducting a survey on "Hand-me-down cookbooks". This is what they say:
"Do you own a cookbook that has been handed down to you by your parents, grandmother, or even great grandparents? AbeBooks wants to know about your family heirloom cookbooks. Whether it's a Fanny Cradock book, Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course or other, your contribution could be used in a cookery feature on AbeBooks."
To take part in the survey click here.

     I'd love to know what old treasures are on people's kitchen bookshelves, so if you have something special or meaningful and don't mind telling us about it here please do so in a comment.

Comments

[Dark Puss]

"French Country Cooking" by Elizabeth David in a much yellowed first Penguin edition which belonged to my grandmother. Ditto for "French Provincial Cooking" and "Summer Cooking". Most prized is a copy of the absolutely wonderful "Anatomy of Desert" by Bunyard that my late father hunted down for me many years ago and gave me as birthday present.

[Lizzie]

I used my mother's Glasgow Cookery Book (actually a text book) for years, until it truly fell apart. I then replaced it with my own copy from the sixties, which is going the same way. It's full of very basic recipes and information - and all the old scottish favourites, which is the main reason I use it, especially for baking (shortbread at New Year!)
They sell for serious money on ebay, so someone ellse must value them too!

[Fran H-B]

I was given Good Housekeeping's Basic Cookery when about 10. I still use the rock bun recipe- have never bettered it.
My father always enjoyed cooking and would make us breakfast on Saturdays which was always a surprise. I gave him "Father in the Kitchen" one Christmas when I was teenager- sorry the author eludes me. At 80 he took over all the household cooking from my mother who became unable to cope, at 88 I still see he uses this book!

[rosie]

Bee Nilsen's Penguin Cookbook. But now even my 1981 copy has given up the ghost. I'm more of a Nigel Slater fan these days, anywya.

[Louise]

I seem to remember Sarah Raven saying that a relation of hers is Fortune Stanley author of English Country House Cooking, and I thought at the time, how fortunate she [Raven] is to have that connection.

[Cornflower]

You're right, Louise, and what a great name Fortune is!

[Christa]

Harriet looks really pretty. She caught my eye. what a pretty girl.