Basic Cookbook

by Lesley Pagett, Yvette Thomson

Kitchen know-how is easy to achieve once you know the basics. Practical and compact, The Basic Cookbook is the essential reference to simple home cooking and features all those timeless recipes you grew up with, as well as the modern classics entering our cuisine today. With over 300 delicious recipes, The Basic Cookbook covers every meal of the day, in an easy-to-follow format. You'll learn everything you need to know to get started in the kitchen - from boiling rice and scrambling eggs to making stock and baking the perfect roast with gravy - as well as how to cook those traditional dishes your mother and grandmother used to make.

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2004