- Hardcover: 1260 pages
- Publisher: Grub Street; New edition edition (30 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904010970
- ISBN-13: 978-1904010975
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.8 x 7.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 585,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'a cracking, really useful book' --The Spectator
'Grub Street publish the classics and The Constance Spry Cookery Book is right up there with the best. This is a page-turner for any lover of British food. A collectors cookbook but it's one to use and cherish.' --Mostly Food
'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday
'You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly.' --The Evening Standard
'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday
'A true kitchen bible. It a supremely practical book, useful still in explaining cooking processes. This reissue by Grub Street is a handsomely produced slab.'--Taste of Manchester
'One of the best cookbooks ever. You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly' --The Evening Standard
An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express
'A joy, not least because the pure, elegant design of the book does justice to both Rosemary Hume's recipes and Spry's very engaging prose style.' --The Guardian
An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
'Grub Street publish the classics and The Constance Spry Cookery Book is right up there with the best. This is a page-turner for any lover of British food. A collectors cookbook but it's one to use and cherish.' --Mostly Food
'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday
'You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly.' --The Evening Standard
'The recipes are great, but it's the hints, tips and techniques that make this book a truly indespensible part of any kitchen.' --Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday
'A true kitchen bible. It a supremely practical book, useful still in explaining cooking processes. This reissue by Grub Street is a handsomely produced slab.'--Taste of Manchester
'One of the best cookbooks ever. You could cook from it for the rest of your life and never eat badly' --The Evening Standard
An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express
'A joy, not least because the pure, elegant design of the book does justice to both Rosemary Hume's recipes and Spry's very engaging prose style.' --The Guardian
An impressive new edition, wonderfully redolent of a very different era. --The Daily Express --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Selected as one of the Greatest Cookbooks of all time in the January 2004 issue of Britain's Waitrose Food Illustrated, the Constance Spry Cookery Book is one of the best-known cookery books of all time.
It has long been out of print and we are delighted to be able to bring this huge volume of over a thousand pages, back to life with the kind permission of Constance Spry Ltd. It was written in the 1950s when both Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume were among the greatest names in cookery writing at the time. Their aim was to offer a supremely practical book with chapters covering kitchen processes, soups and sauces, through vegetables, meat, poultry and game to cold dishes and pastry making. In fact everything every cook, or aspiring cook, would need to know.
That the book has been so popular for over half a century is a true testament to how successfully they achieved their aim. The Constance Spry Cookery Book is now an established classic (and much requested on wedding gift lists) and a timeless treasure which stands the test of time, and is perhaps even more needed today when so many people have not been taught to cook by mothers or at school. It truly is the only cookbook you will ever need.
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"(This) book is 1,197 pages of sound advice ad sexy recipes (from vol-au-vents a l 'Indienne and oeufs Valencia to Edinburgh rock and tomato ice- very contemporary), a monument to 'civilised living' and the 'homelier arts'. If you can't find a recipe for something anywhere else, it will be in Constance Spry."The Guardian
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Everything you ever wanted to know about cooking in the classic English style is here. OK, it's a bit pedantic and fussy, old fashioned and over prescriptive but invaluable.
Clearly written, this tells you how to make every dish there is in english cookery starting from the basics and ending with recipes to serve the royal household. I've used this book for almost 40 years and every recipe in it works. If you want to know how to do things from boiling an egg to roasting venison its here.
Constance Spry writes from a love of cooking and pride in those she's taught. Everything is done properly, no short cuts, no flash just solid, reliable advice on how to prepare food. Between us we own over 100 cook books and this is the one I go to when I want to know how to do something. For actual recipes I might go elsewhere (e.g. the 23 book encyclopedia "Supercook") but often find they probably cribbed the recipe from her as its very similar with some of the frills left out. Where in other books you feel the author is just filling the space, here you feel she has cooked every one of these dishes many times.
This is the book for the person who thinks they know all about cookery, written by the woman who did.
Clearly written, this tells you how to make every dish there is in english cookery starting from the basics and ending with recipes to serve the royal household. I've used this book for almost 40 years and every recipe in it works. If you want to know how to do things from boiling an egg to roasting venison its here.
Constance Spry writes from a love of cooking and pride in those she's taught. Everything is done properly, no short cuts, no flash just solid, reliable advice on how to prepare food. Between us we own over 100 cook books and this is the one I go to when I want to know how to do something. For actual recipes I might go elsewhere (e.g. the 23 book encyclopedia "Supercook") but often find they probably cribbed the recipe from her as its very similar with some of the frills left out. Where in other books you feel the author is just filling the space, here you feel she has cooked every one of these dishes many times.
This is the book for the person who thinks they know all about cookery, written by the woman who did.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My first cookery book, along with Elizabeth David, Madame Prunier and Escoffier and still used constantly and hugely regarded. Maybe not fashionable, but has all the techniques, and all the recipes you must have under your belt.
I have a huge quantity of other cookery books, but know I can instantly find short simple instructions here for such delights as crepes suzettes, profiteroles, red cabbage, creme brulee for which I just need quick reminders. My copy is now in pieces, with brown stains on the pages, and I am about to replace it with a pristine copy which no doubt my daughter will annexe. Try one of the Christmas puddings. Big quantities, maybe, but quite gorgeous, and they keep perfectly for years if you don't halve the quantities. Cleone Saise
I have a huge quantity of other cookery books, but know I can instantly find short simple instructions here for such delights as crepes suzettes, profiteroles, red cabbage, creme brulee for which I just need quick reminders. My copy is now in pieces, with brown stains on the pages, and I am about to replace it with a pristine copy which no doubt my daughter will annexe. Try one of the Christmas puddings. Big quantities, maybe, but quite gorgeous, and they keep perfectly for years if you don't halve the quantities. Cleone Saise
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Constance Spry Cookbook is THE best cookbook ever written. It has all the basics of cooking, right through to complicated dishes, all explained clearly -- and they all work. I often find her recipes "modernised", but the originals are the best. My old paperback version is falling apart and I wish someone would buy me a new book.
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I've used my copy for over 20 years now. Of all my cookery books this is without doubt the most useful. Wouldn't be without it.
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I always return to this book. Although now over 50 years old this book never palls.
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The simplicity of the traditional English and French recipies is fantastic for people like me who 'don't' cook. It's the only cook book I own. Read more
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