Beginner's Step By Ste Cookbook Needed - Fail Safe Recipes

[bizzylizzy]

Can anyone recommend a good cookery book for a new cook? He's not done much cooking before and his first two recipes were a disappointment which is a real shame. I wondered if anyone knew of a book with interesting step by step recipes? It's amazing how many recipes almost seem untried in some books. So a good reliable book is what's needed. Thank you.

[dannyk13]

Delia Smith's How to Cook is quire easy to follow.

[mccfluff]

try delia smith's how to books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delias-How-Cook-Book-One/dp/0563384301

[mrs_overall]

There is one by Delia Smith that is for absolute beginners - it even tells you how to boil an egg. I bought it for my eldest as his cooking repertoire started and ended with Pot Noodles.
I can't remember the name of the book, sorry. It will probably come to me around 3am

[Old_Geezer]

Going back a bit I liked the Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course book I bought myself. Not sure it is exactly the step by step you ask for, but good. Worth a look.

That said I suspect many newer options have become available in the intervening decades.

[Old_Geezer]

Wow ! 3 get in ahead of me and we all pick the same cook !

[Old_Geezer]

Did a quick search. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?bt.x=94&bt.y=16&isbn=9780563214540&sts=t

[bizzylizzy]

LOL I've got that one - maybe I should just hand it over :-) Thanks everyone.

[AlwaysConfused]

student cook books are great. They will have most traditional recipes in, as well as stir-fry and curries, but will even having a section explaining the REALLY simple things, like boiling or scrambling an egg

[humbersloop]

Leith's Cookery Bible, winner every time

written for complete thickos, covers absolutely every cooking technique, so importantly teaches the basic skills, and gives failsafe recipes that you can adapt as experience and confidence grow. Get a second hand one from amazon.

[woofgang]

another vote for Delia, goes from simple to complicated and includes enough theory for new cooks to get creative.

[bizzylizzy]

I've got Leith's cookery bible too. Ahh well the oldest are obviously the best then. No sense spending money if my existing books will help him. Thanks everyone - Merry Christmas to you all.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe it's the age of folk giving advice that determines the recommendation ;-)

[Veryodd]

Even older than the Delia books is the first cook book I ever acquired (aged 11 back in the 70s). It's "Cooking for the Family - in Colour" by Margueritte Patten. Probably way out of print now, but the recipes have never once let me down - even my first ever cheese souffle came out beautifully. It's so old, that some of the recipes are even back in fashion!

[DC_FC]

Have a look at some of the books caterd for student cooking, be simple basic recipes though. Have had a look at the books and they seem easy to folow with step by step instructions. Maybe rent some from the local library to find a book thats best or even collate recipes to do.