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`Good honest home cooking'
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With more than 300 recipes, arranged by meal times (Breakfast, Elevenses, Lunch, Tea, Supper), The Home Cookbook is a celebration of British domestic cooking as it has evolved over the centuries and still exists - especially in the countryside. The food that Monty and Sarah Don eat at home at Ivington is more in the tradition of the Women's Institute than the celebrity chefs. They try to eat food that is as local as possible (often harvested from the back garden) and has a good story. Their book is full of things that you really want to eat - roasts and warming puddings for the winter, the most delicious salads and lightest fools for the summer; recipes that use timeless, thrifty farmhouse techniques such as baking, stewing, braising, salting, pickling, bottling and freezing. In short: good, honest home cooking.
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hefty, strong-minded and traditional,
This review is from: The Home Cookbook (Hardcover)
This book turned out to be quite a bit more substantial than I expected: quite a chunky thing, fairly large format, and a good clear design. The book is also a pleasure to read, with lots of advice, anecdotes and personal touches. Be warned (sort of) that the description of it as homely food is accurate: there are few radical ideas here. If you want more novel ways with similar ingredients I would also look at books by Sarah Raven and Valentine Warner. But it does exactly what it promises, and I'm very pleased with it.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An inspiration,
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This review is from: The Home Cookbook (Hardcover)
This is not just a cookery book. It is more of an inspirational invitation to a lifestyle that many of us would like to aspire to.I love the homely introductions to the recipes that make this book so much more than even the title suggests. This book is a pleasure to read, and much of the joy comes from the love of family life that is apparent and shouts from the pages. It is the emotions that this book arouses rather than the recipes themselves that make this book so exceptional. On a slightly more practical note, many of the recipes are relatively simple and the ingredients mentioned tend to be available in the cupboard, the garden or freezer. As a keen (but very amateur) gardener, I have enjoyed trying recipes for ingredients like rocket and swiss-chard. Such recipes are rare in other cookery books, but these are foods that I grow and are still doing well in my garden at the beginning of November. As someone who loves food, but who also likes to eat a healthy diet, I wish there had been less reference to adding salt. I have managed very easily to adjust my palate so that I don't need or even want to add salt to food, and I would love to see those I hold in high regard and who have influence over what we eat take a leadership role, by promoting healthy options and the use of less salt in particular. Overall a good read and a lovely book
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Real food for real people!,
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This review is from: The Home Cookbook (Hardcover)
This is the cookbook I have been longing to find! In a market saturated by 'celebrity' cookbooks of all kinds - this tome stands out by a long mile. It isn't the kind of cookbook that sets out to impress - with outlandish recipes, though enticing and attractive - you will never actually cook. This book will sit on the kitchen counter, and serve you well - and when you replace it - it will be because it has served its time, like a faithful old retainer who has gone slightly dotty, and rather frayed round the edges!The appeal of this book is its sheer practicality. Good simple food - easily prepared, easily cooked, and very easily enjoyed. Monty and Sara make the point that everyday meals should be simple, fresh and unprocessed, in season, and ideally locally produced. Then they show you how - and I have to say, they make it look remarkably easy. The Dons believe that the 'basics' work - so we have a limited number of traditional 'everyday' British meals, with some treats mixed in. Chapters are divided into Breakfast, Elevenses, Lunch, Tea, Dinner and - wait for it...Supper!! (How does he keep that youthful bod???) Recipes can be easily tweaked to suit the occasion and personal preferences. The popular and tempting recipes should suit most adults and children. And there is sufficient choice so that alternatives are always available. So for example - I'm not a fan of sponge cakes, or pastries, but there are crumbles, fruit dishes, granola and other sweet dishes which are light, fresh, and appetising. And a great recipe for some authentic, industrial strength porridge! There are also the de rigeur misty eyed reminicences of childhood meals with lashings of 'comfort food' (..godawful expression!!) including the trauma of formal afternoon teas wth granny! It is lively, idiosyncratic, opinionated, and hugely readable! I couldn't put it down until the last page. Thanks Monty and Sara - a real cookbook, by real people, for real people, and not before time!
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