Cookery Books

[corylus]

I've just slung out a load of recipe/cookery books that were cluttering up a shelf in my pantry. Haven't referred to them for years, now use recipes from TV progs. or find them on line and have created my own recipe folder from these sources, times change don't they? But I can still remember my grandma's recipes from way back used to spend hours cooking and baking with her when I was a kid.

[Buenchico]

I rarely use recipes from anywhere. I tend to just 'make it all up as I go along'. It's much more fun that way (as long as you don't mind the occasional culinary disaster!)

[corylus]

I often do that too depending on what's in the fridge and vegetable rack, and I usually rely on guess work for weights and measurements.

[Peaspeculiars]

I've gradually given away all the cook books collected over the years as you can get all the recipes online now.
Although, a few years ago I started handwriting my own favourite recipes in a nice book, with a view to passing it down should I ever have children. Some of the recipes in there are ones that you can't find on-line as they've been a 'bung-it' experiment that turned out well, so I wrote down what I could remember.
My mum also has her own handwritten stash of secret recipes which I'm hoping she will pass on to me some day (she won't even let my dad see them! lol)

[black_cat51]

i really like all the old stuff - my two bestest cookbooks are "how to boil an egg" and my mums dairy book of home cooking

[corylus]

Do any of the remember the 'Bero' recipe book?

[Maydup]

I think we probably have our favourite recipes sorted once we've run a home for a few years and there being such a wide range of new ones to help us online to ring the changes, the traditional recipe books are somewhat dated now.

But do give them to a charity shop because someone somewhere will want them. I know a chef who spends his day off looking round the charity shops for cheap recipe books which he buys, reads for ideas and then gives back next week!

[shaneystar2]

I've got a Bero recipe book that belonged to my Mum .God knows how old it is .I'm 66 and she had it before I was born !
I still use it ,when I have the urge to make a cake :)

[Buenchico]

My mother used to rely on 'Mrs Beeton' for everything. I'd still have her copy if the friend I lent it to hadn't 'lost it' (which almost certainly meant 'flogged it at a car boot sale'!)

[corylus]

Maydup mine were put in the book bank for the local Fire and Moorland Rescue Services.

[Maydup]

Perfect

[ethandron]

You know what corylus, I should do exactly the same, I have cookery books there I haven't opened in yonks. There's maybe six I would never throw out...all my delias, my late mums, jamies 30 minute meals, and an A4 file full of handwritten recipes.
I might even go and do that now, buqqer all on the telly.