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I have no idea but I do have loads, hardley ever look at them, flick through some just to see what I should be doing. We tend to always have the same boring food. OH is vegetarian so I find it hard to cook for all of us. I cant be bothered to cook for him and somwthing else for me and daughter and he is so fussy, not allowed to cook meat at the same time.Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
and ends with backache
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Originally posted by piskieinboots View PostI'm a very low number as well - although if you were to poll about gardening books, well - that would be so very very different
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Originally posted by piskieinboots View PostI'm a very low number as well - although if you were to poll about gardening books, well - that would be so very very differentI was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."
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I just did a quick count & found 70 cook books on the shelves in the kitchen, possibly a few more around the house & lots of leaflets/cards/folders & files with other recipes in. I rarely use them though, probably just dip into about 4 or 5 for favourite recipes & I use the cut out ones in the files a few times a year.
Gardening books I seem to remember counting a while ago & I think I had about 190!Into every life a little rain must fall.
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Hmm...I have about 30 cooking books, 17 file boxes of printed pages of recipies, saved receipies from newspapers and magazines. Somethings I inherited from my MIL. I do also have several online cook books as it where - join a site then save your favourites to your favourites on the account and treat it like a cook book. I can beat the nearly 400 Seahorse has! I am very young so I am sure I will get there.
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Only 1 I can actually locate (Good Housekeeping), and a handful somewhere in storage. I just don't USE them.
Gardening.... no, not one. Not enough garden! I rely on what I learned from my Dad and odd bits of info picked up over the years (and asking you lot questions, or, as a last resort, google!)Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.
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Hmmm, this thread has prompted me to do a little count - somewhere in the region of 70-80, all the way from Jamie (not as useful as I had hoped), Nigella, Allens' 'Bake' (very good), most of Hugh (an inspiration, esp his fish one), lots of curry/bread books, a fabby pastry one from a Roux brother, Hestons 'how-the-hell-did-he-make-that' Fat Duck recipes.
Though I may not have the most, perhaps I'm in the running for the oldest? It's a Francatellis' Modern Cook, the earliest inscription on the inside cover reading '1883', with further ones at 1934 and 1945....
I havent used any of the recipes in it, and the style is completely different to modern books - more or less "Here are the ingredients, cook until done" rather than hand holding the wannabe cook.
A favourite recipe in it, however, starts "Procure one fine, fat, lively turtle of around 120lbs"
Twas a different lifetime then.....
Adam S
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