Hi Folks

Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and 
mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their 
"Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?

I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few 
days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...

Cheers
Richard

Richard Dixon wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
> Bible?
>
> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...


Be-Ro Home Recipes!


-- 
Enzo

I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

"Richard Dixon"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> Hi Folks
>
> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>
> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few
> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
> Cheers
> Richard

I give them to people, like McMillen's food science books and Oxford edition 
for this and that, even Larousse to one earnest French speaking friend, but 
I don't really have just one.  I am re-reading Artusi now and he is the fine 
note on historic Italian cookery, worth many readings.  I re-read Beard and 
most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.

In message , Richard 
Dixon  writes
>Hi Folks
>
>Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>"Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>
>I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few
>days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
The book with the most mess on it is Constance Spry but Delia comes a 
close second with the Good Housekeeping books following up.  Silver 
Spoon is OK, as is the Spanish 1000 Recipes. As a cookbook collector, I 
can tell you that there are only a certain number of basic recipes and 
the rest just enhance those with variations but you know that already.
-- 
June Hughes

In message , Enzo Matrix 
 writes
>Richard Dixon wrote:
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>> Bible?
>>
>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
>
>Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>
>
Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you 
know. My first one had a brown and white cover and monochrome pics but 
the new one is in colour.  Same recipes though.  I cut my cookery teeth 
on Marguertia Patten's cookbooks.
-- 
June Hughes

In message , Giusi 
 writes
>"Richard Dixon"  ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>
>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few
>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
>I give them to people, like McMillen's food science books and Oxford edition
>for this and that, even Larousse to one earnest French speaking friend, but
>I don't really have just one.  I am re-reading Artusi now and he is the fine
>note on historic Italian cookery, worth many readings.  I re-read Beard and
>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.
>
>
I thought Richard was referring to cookery books rather than manuals, 
Judith but now we are on the subject, don't you rate Davidson's tome 
amongst your favourites?  Or McGee?
-- 
June Hughes

"June Hughes"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> In message , Giusi 
>  writes
>>"Richard Dixon"  ha scritto nel messaggio
>>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past 
>>> few
>>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Richard
>>
>>I give them to people, like McMillen's food science books and Oxford 
>>edition
>>for this and that, even Larousse to one earnest French speaking friend, 
>>but
>>I don't really have just one.  I am re-reading Artusi now and he is the 
>>fine
>>note on historic Italian cookery, worth many readings.  I re-read Beard 
>>and
>>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.
>>
>>
> I thought Richard was referring to cookery books rather than manuals, 
> Judith but now we are on the subject, don't you rate Davidson's tome 
> amongst your favourites?  Or McGee?
> -- 
> June Hughes

I read McGee's blog!  He's interesting and I have given his book, so I pick 
it up when I visit.  Which is Davidson's tome?  Is that the one I bought DD 
last Christmas at your recommendation?  She has enjoyed it as a read.

June  wrote  on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:14:43 +0100:

> In message , Enzo Matrix 
>  writes
>> Richard Dixon wrote:
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary
>>> Rhodes and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British
>>> Classics is up there on their "Food Bibles" list, what is
>>> everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it
>>> in the past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>

>Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you 
>know. My first one had a brown and white cover and monochrome pics but 
>the new one is in colour.  Same recipes
> though.

Absolutely amazing! I'd forgotten about it completely but I think my 
*mother* got it for free when she was first married and I've lived on 
the other side of the Atlantic for 50 years.
-- 

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

June Hughes wrote:
> In message , Enzo Matrix
>  writes
>> Richard Dixon wrote:
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>>> Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>>
>> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>
>>
> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you
> know.

Yep..  Ophelia sent me my copy about a year ago.

-- 
Enzo

I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Op Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:17:41 +0100 frommelde June Hughes :

> Or McGee?

I do. And the Larousse Encyclopédie Gastronomique. And the threepart
Delia's Basics. And a Dutch cookbook called Wannee's.

-- 
*** Waldo ***
How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

June Hughes  wrote in
news:6bWlAlB+ynuIFwct@theacct.demon.co.uk: 

> The book with the most mess on it is Constance Spry but Delia comes a 
> close second with the Good Housekeeping books following up.  Silver 
> Spoon is OK, as is the Spanish 1000 Recipes. As a cookbook collector,
> I can tell you that there are only a certain number of basic recipes
> and the rest just enhance those with variations but you know that
> already. 

Which Delia? The Complete Cookery one?

Not heard of Constance Spry - I assume you mean this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Constance-Spry-Cookery-Book/dp/1904010970

Richard

On Aug 31, 1:27 pm, "Enzo Matrix"  wrote:
> June Hughes wrote:
> > In message , Enzo Matrix
> >  writes
> >> Richard Dixon wrote:
> >>> Hi Folks
>
> >>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
> >>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
> >>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
> >>> Bible?
>
> >>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
> >>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
> >> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>
> > Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you
> > know.
>
> Yep..  Ophelia sent me my copy about a year ago.

Mine too. I remember my mother's from when I was a child and seeing
the same copy again brought back floods of memories.  Good on that O!!!

In message , Giusi 
 writes
>"June Hughes"  ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:LrMps3CV3nuIFw5q@theacct.demon.co.uk...
>> In message , Giusi
>>  writes
>>>"Richard Dixon"  ha scritto nel messaggio
>>>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>
>>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>>>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>>>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>>
>>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past
>>>> few
>>>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Richard
>>>
>>>I give them to people, like McMillen's food science books and Oxford
>>>edition
>>>for this and that, even Larousse to one earnest French speaking friend,
>>>but
>>>I don't really have just one.  I am re-reading Artusi now and he is the
>>>fine
>>>note on historic Italian cookery, worth many readings.  I re-read Beard
>>>and
>>>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.
>>>
>>>
>> I thought Richard was referring to cookery books rather than manuals,
>> Judith but now we are on the subject, don't you rate Davidson's tome
>> amongst your favourites?  Or McGee?
>> --
>> June Hughes
>
>I read McGee's blog!  He's interesting and I have given his book, so I pick
>it up when I visit.  Which is Davidson's tome?  Is that the one I bought DD
>last Christmas at your recommendation?  She has enjoyed it as a read.
>
>
I don't think so.  Alan Davidson's 'The Oxford Companion to Food' is 
over two inches thick and took him many years to complete.  It isn't a 
thing you would read from cover to cover.  He also edited 'The Wilder 
Shores of Gastronomy' , which has articles from over 20 years of the 
best food writing from the journal 'Petit Propos Culinaires'.  Perhaps 
you are referring to 'Delizia!' by John Dickie, who is Reader in Italian 
Studies at University College, London?  It is a history of the Italians 
and their food right up to the present, including the Slow Food 
Movement, and is an excellent read for anyone interested in Italian 
food.

None of the above are cookery books.  OTOH, the El Bulli books, of which 
I only have one but Mike may have several, have recipes as well as a 
CD-Rom but I haven't tried any of them.  Similarly, Alain Ducasse's 
books have the most amazing recipes but are not really suitable for a 
domestic kitchen.  (I have on order one of his books which is aimed at 
the home-cook but sadly publication has been delayed and I have waited 
for months for Amazon to send it.  They are keeping me up to date and 
the delivery is now aimed at 16 September.  Watch this space!)

My daughter recently bought me 'Le Cordon Blue Professional Baking' but 
again it is not really aimed at the home-cook.  She did a couple of 
their courses in Marylebone in the spring and loved every minute.
-- 
June Hughes

Enzo Matrix wrote:
> June Hughes wrote:
>> In message , Enzo Matrix
>>  writes
>>> Richard Dixon wrote:
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>
>>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>>>> Bible?
>>>>
>>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>
>>>
>>> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>>
>>>
>> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you
>> know.
>
> Yep..  Ophelia sent me my copy about a year ago.

CP has one of the brown originals:))

-- 
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes

Richard Dixon wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
> Bible?
>
> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
> Cheers
> Richard

Can I have a printed version of all the sites in my "Food and drink" 
favourites folder? It might resemble the telephone directory for Greater 
London but it would be quite comprehensive.

Si

June Hughes  wrote in 
news:ELxq0ECj0nuIFwbB@theacct.demon.co.uk:

> In message , Enzo Matrix 
>  writes
>>Richard Dixon wrote:
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>>> Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>>
>>Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>
>>
> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you 
> know. My first one had a brown and white cover and monochrome pics but 
> the new one is in colour.  Same recipes though.  I cut my cookery teeth 
> on Marguertia Patten's cookbooks.

Me too

On Aug 31, 2:52 pm, "Ophelia" <Ophelia@nix,co.uk> wrote:
> Enzo Matrix wrote:
> > June Hughes wrote:
> >> In message , Enzo Matrix
> >>  writes
> >>> Richard Dixon wrote:
> >>>> Hi Folks
>
> >>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
> >>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
> >>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
> >>>> Bible?
>
> >>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
> >>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
> >>> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>
> >> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you
> >> know.
>
> > Yep..  Ophelia sent me my copy about a year ago.
>
> CP has one of the brown originals:))

*strutt* and *beam*

"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message 
news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
> Hi Folks
>
> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>
> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few
> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
> Cheers
> Richard

For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 30 
years ago:
The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.  It 
cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich fruit 
cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of 
different sizes, square or round.

I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
Graham

Graham wrote:
> "Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
> news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>> Bible? I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
> For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought
> over 30 years ago:
> The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.
> It cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For
> rich fruit cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for
> caketins of different sizes, square or round.
>
> I really must get the Be-Ro book though.

 I will send ya one if ya like:))
Mail me:)
-- 
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes

June Hughes wrote:

> In message , Enzo Matrix 
>  writes
> 
>> Richard Dixon wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>>> Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>>
>>
>> Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>
>>
> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you 
> know. My first one had a brown and white cover and monochrome pics but 
> the new one is in colour.  Same recipes though.  I cut my cookery teeth 
> on Marguertia Patten's cookbooks.

So did we. It is falling apart now, but all our favourite recipes have 
been removed and put into sleeves in a ring binder. We do have a later 
one that is still intact though. Cookery in colour. I tried looking for 
a date inside it, but all I can find is a sticker saying
To Lynn Sudworth.
Duke of Edinburgh's
Bronze award winner 1978
 From Landgate school.

Wife picked it up on a market for £1-00

Dave

In message <g9earf$ehq$1@registered.motzarella.org>, "Mungo \"Two 
Sheds\" Toadfoot"  writes
>Richard Dixon wrote:
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>> Bible?
>>
>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
>Can I have a printed version of all the sites in my "Food and drink"
>favourites folder? It might resemble the telephone directory for Greater
>London but it would be quite comprehensive.
>
>Si
>
>
Don't see why not.  And it's original.
-- 
June Hughes

In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham  
writes
>
>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>
>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past few
>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 30
>years ago:
>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.  It
>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich fruit
>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
>different sizes, square or round.
>
>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
>Graham
>
>
Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
-- 
June Hughes

In message , Mister 
Niceguy  writes
>June Hughes  wrote in
>news:ELxq0ECj0nuIFwbB@theacct.demon.co.uk:
>
>> In message , Enzo Matrix
>>  writes
>>>Richard Dixon wrote:
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>
>>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes
>>>> and mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there
>>>> on their "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food
>>>> Bible?
>>>>
>>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the
>>>> past few days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>
>>>
>>>Be-Ro Home Recipes!
>>>
>>>
>> Ah Yes.  Cheap, cheerful and reliable.  They still do that book, you
>> know. My first one had a brown and white cover and monochrome pics but
>> the new one is in colour.  Same recipes though.  I cut my cookery teeth
>> on Marguertia Patten's cookbooks.
>
>Me too

Mine was left behind when I divorced in 1985 but I thought my kids would 
get it.  No chance:(  Still, I have the new one, which is good enough 
for me and Bas doesn't complain:)
-- 
June Hughes

"June Hughes"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:S0Rf7cHg0puIFw7D@theacct.demon.co.uk...
> In message Giusi  writes
>>"June Hughes" Giusi
>>>  writes
>>>>I give them to people, like McMillen's food science books and Oxford
>>>>edition
>>>>for this and that, even Larousse to one earnest French speaking friend,
>>>>but
>>>>I don't really have just one.  I am re-reading Artusi now and he is the
>>>>fine
>>>>note on historic Italian cookery, worth many readings.  I re-read Beard
>>>>and
>>>>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I thought Richard was referring to cookery books rather than manuals,
>>> Judith but now we are on the subject, don't you rate Davidson's tome
>>> amongst your favourites?  Or McGee?
>>> --
>>> June Hughes
>>
>>I read McGee's blog!  He's interesting and I have given his book, so I 
>>pick
>>it up when I visit.  Which is Davidson's tome?  Is that the one I bought 
>>DD
>>last Christmas at your recommendation?  She has enjoyed it as a read.
>>
>>
> I don't think so.  Alan Davidson's 'The Oxford Companion to Food' is over 
> two inches thick and took him many years to complete.  It isn't a thing 
> you would read from cover to cover.  He also edited 'The Wilder Shores of 
> Gastronomy' , which has articles from over 20 years of the best food 
> writing from the journal 'Petit Propos Culinaires'.  Perhaps you are 
> referring to 'Delizia!' by John Dickie, who is Reader in Italian Studies 
> at University College, London?  It is a history of the Italians and their 
> food right up to the present, including the Slow Food Movement, and is an 
> excellent read for anyone interested in Italian food.


That one I gave to my closest US friend, Jane.  Jane, DD and I all read 
weighty tomes.  We are weighty tome kind of girls rather than flighty and 
entertaining ones.

> None of the above are cookery books.  OTOH, the El Bulli books, of which 
> I only have one but Mike may have several, have recipes as well as a 
> CD-Rom but I haven't tried any of them.

I do read cookbooks sometimes, but I have very few of them.  I have the two 
standard ones I was given as a bride and find them useful reminders of 
standard info like which fruit must be frozen in syrup.

> My daughter recently bought me 'Le Cordon Blue Professional Baking' but 
> again it is not really aimed at the home-cook.  She did a couple of their 
> courses in Marylebone in the spring and loved every minute.
> -- 
> June Hughes

Foodies do delight in food things!

In article , Giusi 
 writes

>I re-read Beard and
>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.

I liked MFK Fisher's 'The Art of Eating'. It has a few recipes but is 
more of a travelogue.
-- 
congokid
Eating out in London? Read my tips...
http://congokid.com

"June Hughes"  wrote in message 
news:qjahO2MN2suIFwt4@theacct.demon.co.uk...
> In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham  
> writes
>>
>>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
>>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>
>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past 
>>> few
>>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Richard
>>
>>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 30
>>years ago:
>>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.  It
>>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich fruit
>>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
>>different sizes, square or round.
>>
>>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
>>Graham
>>
>>
> Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
> -- 
> June Hughes

I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also have 
the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk Marketing 
Board. I have loads of cookery books but I never seem to actually use the 
recipes, just browse through them for ideas.
Kathleen

In message , congokid 
 writes
>In article , Giusi 
> writes
>
>>I re-read Beard and
>>most of all M F K Fisher, but none of them are Bibles.
>
>I liked MFK Fisher's 'The Art of Eating'. It has a few recipes but is 
>more of a travelogue.

I enjoyed MKF's 'With Bold Knife and Fork'. Again, that is more of a 
reading book rather than for recipes.
-- 
June Hughes

In message , Kathleen 
 writes
>
>"June Hughes"  wrote in message
>news:qjahO2MN2suIFwt4@theacct.demon.co.uk...
>> In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham 
>> writes
>>>
>>>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
>>>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>
>>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
>>>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
>>>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>>
>>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past
>>>> few
>>>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Richard
>>>
>>>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 30
>>>years ago:
>>>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.  It
>>>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich fruit
>>>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
>>>different sizes, square or round.
>>>
>>>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
>>>Graham
>>>
>>>
>> Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
>> --
>> June Hughes
>
>I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also have
>the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk Marketing
>Board. I have loads of cookery books but I never seem to actually use the
>recipes, just browse through them for ideas.
>Kathleen
>
>
Yup!  I know the feeling.  The Dairy book came from the milkman, so you 
are correct about the MMB.  Unfortunately, mine was left behind in 1985, 
which was a pity because I actually used it from time to time.  ISTR 
buying an identical one for my m-in-l in the mid 1980's, so it must 
still have been around then - I think it came out just before Christmas.
-- 
June Hughes

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:06:34 +0100, June Hughes
 wrote:

>Yup!  I know the feeling.  The Dairy book came from the milkman, so you 
>are correct about the MMB.  Unfortunately, mine was left behind in 1985, 
>which was a pity because I actually used it from time to time.  ISTR 
>buying an identical one for my m-in-l in the mid 1980's, so it must 
>still have been around then - I think it came out just before Christmas.

There are several for sale on ebay as I type.
-- 
Paul C

"June Hughes"  wrote in message 
news:M92IJ5E6TAvIFwBS@theacct.demon.co.uk...
> In message , Kathleen 
>  writes
>>
>>"June Hughes"  wrote in message
>>news:qjahO2MN2suIFwt4@theacct.demon.co.uk...
>>> In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham 
>>> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
>>>>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>>
>>>>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes 
>>>>> and
>>>>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on 
>>>>> their
>>>>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past
>>>>> few
>>>>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 
>>>>30
>>>>years ago:
>>>>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads. 
>>>>It
>>>>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich 
>>>>fruit
>>>>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
>>>>different sizes, square or round.
>>>>
>>>>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
>>>>Graham
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
>>> --
>>> June Hughes
>>
>>I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also have
>>the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk Marketing
>>Board. I have loads of cookery books but I never seem to actually use the
>>recipes, just browse through them for ideas.
>>Kathleen
>>
>>
> Yup!  I know the feeling.  The Dairy book came from the milkman, so you 
> are correct about the MMB.  Unfortunately, mine was left behind in 1985, 
> which was a pity because I actually used it from time to time.  ISTR 
> buying an identical one for my m-in-l in the mid 1980's, so it must still 
> have been around then - I think it came out just before Christmas.
> -- 
> June Hughes

We had one (my late ex F-I-L was a member of some sort of dairy commission) 
but it went with my ex when we split.  It was a damn good book that went 
beyond the basics.
Graham

"Kathleen"  wrote in
news:CZ-dnVCwa931eybVnZ2dnUVZ8s3inZ2d@bt.com: 

> I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also
> have the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk
> Marketing Board.

Is it true that the Milk Marketing Board invented the "Ploughmans Lunch" to 
get more people eating cheese?

Richard

Kathleen wrote:
> 
> "June Hughes"  wrote in message
> news:qjahO2MN2suIFwt4@theacct.demon.co.uk...
> > In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham 
> > writes
> >>
> >>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
> >>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
> >>> Hi Folks
> >>>
> >>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes and
> >>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on their
> >>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
> >>>
> >>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the past
> >>> few
> >>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Richard
> >>
> >>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 30
> >>years ago:
> >>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads.  It
> >>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich fruit
> >>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
> >>different sizes, square or round.
> >>
> >>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
> >>Graham
> >>
> >>
> > Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
> > --
> > June Hughes
> 
> I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also have
> the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk Marketing
> Board. I have loads of cookery books but I never seem to actually use the
> recipes, just browse through them for ideas.
> Kathleen

Sigh...Left my 'Dairy Book of Home Cooking' behind when I went into
'exile'. It's a great basic cookbook and the recipes always worked.

"Arri London"  wrote in message 
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>
>
> Kathleen wrote:
>>
>> "June Hughes"  wrote in message
>> news:qjahO2MN2suIFwt4@theacct.demon.co.uk...
>> > In message <DFzuk.137014$nD.9030@pd7urf1no>, Graham 
>> > writes
>> >>
>> >>"Richard Dixon"  wrote in message
>> >>news:Xns9B0B708B59BD5rdngemailyahoocouk@69.16.176.253...
>> >>> Hi Folks
>> >>>
>> >>> Going on a response from Waldo in an earlier thread re: Gary Rhodes 
>> >>> and
>> >>> mentioning that Gary Rhodes' Great British Classics is up there on 
>> >>> their
>> >>> "Food Bibles" list, what is everyone's Desert Island Food Bible?
>> >>>
>> >>> I've just had a thought about mine and having gorged on it in the 
>> >>> past
>> >>> few
>> >>> days, The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers
>> >>> Richard
>> >>
>> >>For baking I always turn to a tatty little paperback that I bought over 
>> >>30
>> >>years ago:
>> >>The Good Housekeeping Library of Cooking: Cakes, Pastries and Breads. 
>> >>It
>> >>cost me the princely sum of 6 shillings (remember those?).  For rich 
>> >>fruit
>> >>cakes, it has a table that shows the amounts needed for caketins of
>> >>different sizes, square or round.
>> >>
>> >>I really must get the Be-Ro book though.
>> >>Graham
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Want one?  I shall get you one and send it.
>> > --
>> > June Hughes
>>
>> I have the Be-ro book too, dates back to about 1972, I think. I also have
>> the Dairy Book of Home Cooking which I think was from the Milk Marketing
>> Board. I have loads of cookery books but I never seem to actually use the
>> recipes, just browse through them for ideas.
>> Kathleen
>
> Sigh...Left my 'Dairy Book of Home Cooking' behind when I went into
> 'exile'. It's a great basic cookbook and the recipes always worked.

Think I had better get it off the shelf and dust if off, now that everyone 
is so keen on it! Another old favourite was the Four Seasons Cookery Book by 
Margaret Costa. I have an old hardback edition but I saw a paperback 
re-issue a while ago.
Kathleen

Richard Dixon said 

> The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...

Davidsons Oxford companion to food
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............  writes
>Richard Dixon said
>
>> The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>
>Davidsons Oxford companion to food

Yup!
-- 
June Hughes

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> In message <17kc4z6tkuies$.qo6l8wz9la4r.dlg@40tude.net>, Mike ............ 
>  writes
>>Richard Dixon said
>>
>>> The Silver Spoon probably wins it for me...
>>
>>Davidsons Oxford companion to food
>
> Yup!
> -- 
> June Hughes

Perhaps I should have kept it!  By the time I finish paying for gifts, 
though, I feel too poor to buy anything for me.