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'There's not much this gourmet grande dame doesn't know' --Nigel Slater, The Observer
Darina Allen needs no introduction in these pages. This, her sixth book, is packed full of useful tips and techniques inspired by her last passion, the 'Forgotten Skills of Cooking', and covers everything from keeping a few chickens to home-growing and foraging and making your own cider. --Food & Wine
Darina Allen's new book has everything from butter making to smoking food. It's a treasure chest overflowing with home produce jewels. --Choice Magazine
Really, you just want to linger in Allen's homemade world for as long as possible, sipping black-currant-leaf lemonade before wandering from the 100-acre garden to the smokehouse to check on your mussels and hogget. --New York Times Book Review
'Darina Allen uses her immense knowledge and superbly entertaining teaching ability in her Forgotten Skills of Cooking. It's a brilliant resource for anyone who has a yen to live the Good Life or who cooks from first principles and covers everything including foraging, keeping chickens, making sourdough, yoghurt and butter and curing bacon. I can browse it for hours.' --The Observer Food Monthly
Darina Allen needs no introduction in these pages. This, her sixth book, is packed full of useful tips and techniques inspired by her last passion, the 'Forgotten Skills of Cooking', and covers everything from keeping a few chickens to home-growing and foraging and making your own cider. --Food & Wine
Darina Allen's new book has everything from butter making to smoking food. It's a treasure chest overflowing with home produce jewels. --Choice Magazine
Darina Allen needs no introduction in these pages. This, her sixth book, is packed full of useful tips and techniques inspired by her last passion, the 'Forgotten Skills of Cooking', and covers everything from keeping a few chickens to home-growing and foraging and making your own cider. --Food & Wine
Darina Allen's new book has everything from butter making to smoking food. It's a treasure chest overflowing with home produce jewels. --Choice Magazine
Really, you just want to linger in Allen's homemade world for as long as possible, sipping black-currant-leaf lemonade before wandering from the 100-acre garden to the smokehouse to check on your mussels and hogget. --New York Times Book Review
'Darina Allen uses her immense knowledge and superbly entertaining teaching ability in her Forgotten Skills of Cooking. It's a brilliant resource for anyone who has a yen to live the Good Life or who cooks from first principles and covers everything including foraging, keeping chickens, making sourdough, yoghurt and butter and curing bacon. I can browse it for hours.' --The Observer Food Monthly
Darina Allen needs no introduction in these pages. This, her sixth book, is packed full of useful tips and techniques inspired by her last passion, the 'Forgotten Skills of Cooking', and covers everything from keeping a few chickens to home-growing and foraging and making your own cider. --Food & Wine
Darina Allen's new book has everything from butter making to smoking food. It's a treasure chest overflowing with home produce jewels. --Choice Magazine
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In this much-needed new book, which has already sought high appraisal by winning the Andre Simon Food Book Award, Darina reconnects you with the cooking skills that missed a generation or two. The book is divided into chapters such as 'Dairy', 'Hens and Eggs', 'Bread and Preserving' and forgotten processes such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon and making yogurt and butter which are explained in the simplest terms. The delicious recipes show you how to use your homemade produce to its best, and include ideas for using forgotten cut of meat, baking bread and cakes and even eating food from the wild. The Vegetables and Herbs chapter is stuffed with growing tips to satisfy even those with the smallest garden plot or window box, and there are plenty of suggestions for using gluts of vegetables. You'll even discover how to keep a few chickens in the garden. With over 700 recipes, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I collect cook book and cook from scratch as much as I can - with the help of this wonderful book, I have, for the first time ever, made my own yogurt and butter - the yogurt is so easy and the most fantastic yogurt I have ever eaten, the butter - to die for. In fact the recipes are easy to follow and don't use ingredients that you probably don't already use. This book has enabled me to make food that we eat every day and use pre packaged food even less. The recipes do take time so not for everyone but, if like me, you are trying to cut down your reliance on supermarkets then this is the book for you.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Forgotten Skills of Cooking is a beautifully presented book. I purchased it as a present for a friend who's cook book collection is well over a hundred cookbooks - and this was a welcome and stand out addition for her. In fact, I loved it so much, I had to buy it for myself as well! 'Forgotten Skills' is laid out well chapter wise. Its chapters like "Foraging" early in the book are unusual and a delight to read (although probably not as useful on a day to day being a city dweller). Its individual chapters for "Preserving", "Bread", and "Puddings" are great as well, along with the various meat chapters. It's wonderful to read with an old-school, homely approach to cookery, ingredients and methods. The accompanying pictures and beautiful purple ribbon bookmark against the colours of the book, give reading it the feel that you are travelling back in time, and recapturing a time when food was down to earth, and honest. It visits some aspects of cooking that are almost secretive, and attempting certain processes in the book is like playing tribute to how your granny and how she cooked! Along with information about ingredients and techniques, Darina's dialogue of her personal tips throughout (linking it back to Ballymaloe or her childhood etc) provide a more intimate tone throughout the book (making it something I've found myself just reading just for sheer pleasure, when not even looking for a recipe). With regards to recipes - I've cooked a number from the book, each has always turned out well if you follow them step by step. I think part of the reason the book is so special as well, is because it has recipes for things like how to make your own black pudding or preserving, its has lots of little gems in there for everyone. Well worth purchasing, its pretty unique and you will love it!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Like some of the other viewers, this book takes me back to my childhood when we kept all sorts of animals. Although there are many Irish recipes, there are also a lot from other countries as well. The chapters are arranged as follows:
Foraging
Fish
Game
Beef
Dairy
Egg and Poultry
Pig
Lamb
Vegetables, Herbs and Salad
Preserving
Cakes and Biscuits
Bread
Household Tips
Not only are there recipes and cooking techniques, but also instructions on how to make you own smoker, sausage, cheese and butter making. Bearing in mind that the subtitle of the book is 'The time-honoured ways are best', there are useful tips on ways to use up left-overs and also to ensure that no part of an animal or vegetable is wasted. One of my favourites is to grow radishes in an old saucepan, eat the radishes, but to also use the leaves to make a delicious soup.
It is a hefty tome, but I feel that it will become a classic like 'Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management'.
Foraging
Fish
Game
Beef
Dairy
Egg and Poultry
Pig
Lamb
Vegetables, Herbs and Salad
Preserving
Cakes and Biscuits
Bread
Household Tips
Not only are there recipes and cooking techniques, but also instructions on how to make you own smoker, sausage, cheese and butter making. Bearing in mind that the subtitle of the book is 'The time-honoured ways are best', there are useful tips on ways to use up left-overs and also to ensure that no part of an animal or vegetable is wasted. One of my favourites is to grow radishes in an old saucepan, eat the radishes, but to also use the leaves to make a delicious soup.
It is a hefty tome, but I feel that it will become a classic like 'Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management'.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
What every thinking cook should have
This is a carefully thought out and informative tome full of practical advice and delicious recipes . Its the sort of book you reach for first . Read more
Published 5 months ago by grace timmons
Not another cook book
They were the words of my wife and I generally agree with her regarding cook books, when it arrived
I opened the package and thought it was very heavy so I left it until after... Read more
I opened the package and thought it was very heavy so I left it until after... Read more
Published 7 months ago by fairhallhenry
Forgotten Skills
Excellent book, haven't got around to trying out the recipes yet but they all look amazing.delivery was very quick and the book arrived in excellent condition.
Published 7 months ago by Mrs. P. A. Matthews
Brilliant book, everyone should have a copy!
I love this book, I first saw it last year when my friend had it as a Christmas present. Its diverse and interesting to read, even if you don't wish to do much cooking. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Celtic_Desire
Truly outstanding - perfect gift for any foodie
This is a treasure of a book, and works at so many levels. If you just want to buy / cook / eat, it is full of excellent and original recipes - from simple but delicious to... Read more
Published 8 months ago by James Bury
An adventure in a book!
What a gorgeous book. The recipes are inspired and capture another time. The writing is lovely, very knowledgeable, and both of what I've tried has been smashing. Read more
Published 10 months ago by H. Beaton
Pure Perfection
I cannot express how much pleasure this cookery book has given me , but not just me my eldest Granddaughter (9) loves to sit and browse through too. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lazydaisy
what a great book
Most used cookery book in my house at the moment,have just made the gooseberry jam and the flapjacks -delicious. Read more
Published 11 months ago by M. Gorman
What a Gem
I am loving this book, it will keep me busy for years to come.
It it's great to find so much sharing of knowledge and wisdom in one book. Read more
It it's great to find so much sharing of knowledge and wisdom in one book. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Catey Did
Beautiful! Sure to become a modern classic.
This is not only a great, easy to follow cookery book, but a fabulously interesting read. Loads of money-saving/time-saving tips, common sense and a whopping great chunk of... Read more
Published 16 months ago by W. Wild
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