The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

by Sheelagh Donovan, Helen Mott (Editor)

A major feature of this edition is the inclusion of instructions for cooking many of the recipes in a microwave oven.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

416 pages, Hardcover

First published November 26, 1992

Reviews

[Ebbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a quintessential cookbook of a very specific time period in British history! My mother cooked often from the old version, and gave me this version when I left home. This one has been updated, bizarrely, with how to do everything in a microwave. Oh and it has metric measurements at last.
This is first and foremost designed to shill dairy products at every opportunity, falls flat on every foreign dish, and has a terrible index. It has several recipes that should have been left to die in the 1970s. It is also completely indispensable when it comes to British pies, roasts, biscuits, and most other traditional staples.
I deeply love this ridiculous book like it's part of the family, because in a way, it is.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book got me through university when I started living on my own for the first time. Basic, easy and accurate for quick and foolproof British staples.

[Cath · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good old fashion family recipes.

[Aliya · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're a person self taught in life and in cooking, you need this book to teach you the foundation of cooking; it takes you from the very basics to festive recipes. In other words this is cooking 101 and chef style cooking, rolled together in one handy book.

The recipes are excellent and they are quite easy to follow.

[12barbluez · Rating 5 out of 5]

such a good book, easy recipes although quite a bit of cream involved. I use it all the time.

[Sarah Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite cookbook and the one I remember my mum using growing up.

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good first home gift, everything for new cooks & accomplished.