Whats Your Favourite Cookbook of All Time and Why?

[taff]

My parents have a copy of the Readers Digest one when it came out my father always uses it for his christmas cakes. I found in a charity shop last year and snapped it up. Great for basics of everything.
I ahven't got one overall though if it isn't that one, because they're all for different things.

[Piggle]

My first cookery book was the Dairy Book of Home Cookery (the nineties edition), it was well thumbed when I was studying for my GCSE in Food Studies and I still use it now and again. Nowadays all my cookbooks are from the River Cottage stable, the Veg book is on my Christmas list!

I still have the Dairy Book of Home Management ... very useful if you have to do such diverse tasks as deliver a baby or convert cups to litres!

[Helgalush]

I have the Dairy Cookbooks too, I inherited them from my mum, even though I dont use them now. My mum always used to get the Dairy Diary off the milkman too.

[BroadRipple]

Jeanied, I want those recipes! any suggestions about where we newbies could find them other than laborious searches for 'jam'?
and come on I need baking book suggestions...
and how CAN you all stand Hugh FW? isn't he just a big phoney? though phew re: his latest haircut...

[BroadRipple]

curly-kale, I love the Sarah Raven garden cookbook too.
FloFennel, MOM, I like the old ones too...once I even tried to make Toast Water (unbelievably disgusting). I have a book from Yorkshire Relish (no, me neither) with sections e.g. 'what you can curry' (lobster, calf's head) and Tripe for an Invalid.

[Headfry]

Helgalush, Piggle, HeatherL ....dairy diary and cooks books..... My Mum, My Grandma and I all have had these books they are great...do they still do them?

[HeatherL]

You can still buy the cookbook on amazon, it has 5 stars!

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery: New Edition for the Nineties: Amazon.co.uk: Sheelagh Donovan, Helen Mott: Books

[HeatherL]

I've just found this as well - an all new edition for 2012

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery 2012 | Updated for today's cook

[WendyC]

My first cookery book was the Dairy Book of Home Cookery (the nineties edition), it was well thumbed when I was studying for my GCSE in Food Studies and I still use it now and again. Nowadays all my cookbooks are from the River Cottage stable, the Veg book is on my Christmas list!

This is the one I use a lot too. Also my school home economics exercise book which my teenage sons think is hilarious that I was once their age!

[Hilary B]

In what way is Hugh a phoney? He does what he talks about. That is genuine enough for me.

[BroadRipple]

maybe he's not, but there's something offputting about that huge river cottage industry, which he's endlessly promoting/being promoted by as the frontman, but obviously can't be doing it all himself. i wonder if he's just a great talent spotter and self promoter above all.

[northepaul]

Hes a very good business man, but also very passionate about what he believes in.