Jackie French's Chook Book

by Jackie French

This is a book about chickens, how to keep them, raise them, breed them and love them! It is also a recipe book. Includes over 75 pages of tantalising chicken and egg recipes including soups, basic egg recipes, omelettes, souffles, other main egg dishes, mayonnaise, cakes and desserts.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

132 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

Jackie is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator and the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015. She is regarded as one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors, and writes across all genres - from picture books, history, fantasy, ecology and sci-fi to her much loved historical fiction. In her capacity as Australian Children’s Laureate, ‘Share a Story’ will be the primary philosophy behind Jackie’s two-year term.

Reviews

[Ngaire Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly informative and insightful.

[Harry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book of chooks gives great education on chooks .there will always be something else in the GREAT CHOOK CHOOK

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has taken me a while, and I haven't read all the recipes at the back yet. I've instead put the book onto my cook book shelf in the kitchen for use as needed. Although not all of what Jackie says makes perfect logical sense to me, I have enjoyed reading her opinions, and relished the force of her personality throughout. It makes reading an information book more of a literary experience this way. I like her passion. She is obviously a feisty, generous-hearted and strongly opinionated person. I'm used to women like that, as they run in our family :-) And she has a decent view of caring for animals with consideration for their quality of life.

I also enjoyed her straight talking instructions. I finished off my read this morning with 'how to kill a chook' and 'how to clean a chook'. I made a note of the page on how to make a quill pen. Since all of our chooks are our friends, I don't think we'll be eating any of them, so the quill pen may be made from the feather of another animal, but it's all interesting information.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plenty of helpful information in here about chooks, and how to use their meat and eggs. Have tried a few of the recipes and they’ve all turned out great. Coronation chicken with homemade mayo on a sandwich for lunch, yummo.

[Tory Hayward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely book, Jackie French is the best. But I was expecting more about looking after Chooks and less about cooking them. But still am pleased to have the recipes, especially all the egg ones.

[John Sheahan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical. No sentiment in here!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely fun little read on raising chickens. I was expecting more on looking after chooks but the recipe section was the bigger portion of the book. Amazing recipes!