Home Cookery Year: Four Seasons, Over 200 Recipes for All Possible Occasions

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Deep frying is not my forte but cooking with confidence means that you can place your trust in a good recipe with clear instructions and feel okay with the outcome. As well as its extensive and varied list of ‘receipts’, more than a thousand, it addressed multiple daily domestic challenges. One of my tests of how much I am excited by a new cookbook is how many recipes I feel driven to mark with a Post-It note. With over 200 recipes, and with an expansive flavour palette, it is a boon for those in a cooking rut.

And, Janet Morgan continues: ‘Daily life in the nineteenth century had a long agenda: “To make Pot Pourri; an excellent Water to prevent hair from falling off, and to thicken it [a mixture of unadulterated honey, tendrils of vines and rosemary-tops]; Black Ink; Fine Blacking for Shoes. A fragile copy, poor quality paper is tanned and brittle, short tear to fore-edge of most pages, cover tanned and foxed with tears and an area of loss to front cover. There are inspired takes on classic game recipes, simple yet irresistible desserts by the dozen and, most outrageously of all, a recipe for Duck and Damson Bao that is as good as anything I have in my healthy collection of far more specialised Chinese cookbooks.The apples and the smoked tofu are an excellent canvas for the dressing in this recipe, a dazzling combination of cherry tomatoes and peanuts, which are pestle-bashed in a mortar (or use a food processor, those little ones are often very handy, to bruise and break everything down just enough), then mixed through with the lime, fish sauce and shallots. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

With Home Cookery Year, Claire Thomson has created exactly what she intended to: a five-star all-rounder that you will be using on a weekly basis for years to come. We are confident, however, that nearly two hundred years on Persephone readers will find it both useful and entertaining, as well as being a work of social history in itself. Paired with a title that Thomson herself admits is more honest than fashionable, I’m ready for a collection of practical, if dull, recipes. In case you’re wondering everything turned out fine — I got the battered cauliflower fried and my people here loved it!Drain the apples and transfer them to a large mixing bowl along with the lettuce leaves, tofu and basil. The answer is most often found in the pages of a cookbook and lately the cookbook that’s been on my kitchen counter is Claire Thomson‘s Home Cookery Year (an appropriately-titled book, for the year where the focus is on home cooking). What a beauty… imaginative, appealing recipes grounded in good sense… you can taste the experience, that these are lived recipes. Ground as a flour to make noodles or pasta, it has an intensely nutty flavour, which suits cold dishes such as this salad very well. In a food processor on pulse or in a mortar with a pestle, pound the garlic, chillies and sugar to a paste.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Even the recipes under the ‘leisurely weekend cooking’ headings are only listed as such because of the time they take, or the mess they’ll make. This is midweek cookery with little more than a can of beans, some bacon and spinach – and thick slices of toast, of course. The former is a a thick bread and tomato soup served at room temperature; the latter a salad of crumbled stale bread, tomatoes and red onions.Cool on a wire rack and then enjoy warm with some butter – or my more recent favourite – lemon marmalade! It was designed in 1965 by Ingmar Relling (1920-2002), several of whose Siesta chairs are in the National Museum in.

I find that I’ve been using Home Cookery Year mostly for my weeknight cooking when I’m short on time and ideas. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. I cut back on the oil which probably meant the bean puree wasn't as unctuous as it should have been. Even if you have the original, treat yourself (and your friends) to a new copy of this very special anniversary edition. She has written about food for publications including the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine and Countryfile Magazine.Claire Thomson, who has made something of a habit of releasing practical, down-to-earth cookbooks over the past five years.