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Desert Island Recipe Books

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Blondiescot Sun 08-Jan-23 15:48:37

If I was forced to choose only one, it would be Ozlem's Turkish Table, by Ozlem Warren.

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Kate1949 Sun 08-Jan-23 15:48:30

When I got married in 1969 my mother gave me The Dairy Book of Home Cooking. She bought it from the milkman. Sadly I no longer have it.

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ExperiencedNotOld Sun 08-Jan-23 15:46:47

Nigella’s How to be a Domestic Goddess and Nigel Slater’s Cookery Year. I couldn’t choose between the two. If allowed a third, Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem.

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Auntieflo Sun 08-Jan-23 15:42:56

My 1958 Good Housekeeping cookery compendium, just because my mum's handwriting is inside

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Nannagarra Sun 08-Jan-23 15:26:05

Leith’s Cookery Course Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave.

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makemineajammiedodger Sun 08-Jan-23 15:13:13

Cooking For Every Occasion ed.Marion Howells, Octopus Books 1971. I was given this as a wedding present. It covers every single thing I have ever tried to cook. My copy is very battered and tattered, but I will never part with it!

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Sun 08-Jan-23 15:07:50

Do you have one particular recipe book that is your ultimate reference?

Mine would be Jane Grigson's English Food (the recipes are by no means all English). Unfortunately Jane has been dead for 35 years now and some things in it are very difficult, if not downright impossible, to do ("get your butcher to cut a piece just so" – when did you last see a proper butcher with a rack of cleavers, saws and bits of animal to be cut up to order?) but for basics it can't be beat.

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