The Complete Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook

by Mary Watts

This reissue contains over 1000 traditional and country recipes, which were chosen from the many thousands sent in by viewers of the Yorkshire Television programme, "Farmhouse Kitchen". Recipes combine past traditions with present-day thinking, and represent the best of traditional British food. Wholefood is not good, plain home cooking from fresh ingredients is wholefood at its best, and these days more people are concerned with the quality of the food they eat, and are rejecting packaged and prepared dishes. Traditional recipes are ones which have survived the years, and they are brought up-to-date with new healthy versions in this book. Traditional country skills baking bread; making preserves, cheese and butter; and brewing beer and country wines. The recipes range from dinner party fare to everyday family meals.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Outlander · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best cookery books in my collection. A must for any serious cook, full of great idiot proof recipes. Almost all donated, tried & tested by 'Joe Public' or should that be Josephine ?

[Shonaigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my Mums cookery book and aways remember cooking from it from a young age at home. Fairly traditional and quintessentially British it is an excellent resource crammed full of recipes. It has some 432 pages! The book was published in relation to a series that aired on television during the 70's and 80's, called the Farmhouse Kitchen. This was a popular daytime show, it often featured guest chefs and really celebrated British food. It shared hints, tips and advice on how to cook for a family and on a budget. The main feature of the programme was that it asked people to send in there own recipes and the hosts would cook these. I very much like the personal touch in this book- all the recipes submitted are by home cooks and their names appear alongside. The baking section is particularly good, it features a-lot of traditional and regional British baking recipes. Many of those specific to certain areas are some that I had never came across before. Plenty of puddings, cakes, loafs, bread and pastry recipes. It has good traditional main meals such as stews, curries, soups, hotpots, pies, roasts as well as preserves, chutneys, drinks and food gifts. It is purely a recipe book and does not contain pictures. It is simple British cooking at it's best, easy to follow recipes and as it is British, it is handy if you like to cook with local and seasonal produce.

Recipe Highlights-

Yorkshire Parkin, Banana Loaf, Bran Scones, Nutty Treacle Bread, Roasted Root and Thyme Soup, Seeded Soda Bread, Chicken and Rice Casserole, Apricot and Almond Slice, Lentil Nut Loaf, Chili Jam, Rosehip and Raspberry Jam and Rhubarb and Ginger Crumble

[Allibobs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is and has always been my cooking bible

[Monique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this book as a gift when I left my dear au-pair family in July 1993. Love the book eversince and using it too!!! Love the vast amount of recipes, there is just so much!!