Simple New Recipes
Tasty food, easy to cook, simple ingredients
If that’s what you’re after, you can’t do better than find yourself a traditional British cookery book.
I recently found a copy of a cookery book written in 1950, packed with wonderful, basic dishes. It covers everything from making bread to main courses (with and without meat), hot and cold desserts, biscuits and home made sweets. It even shows you how to make at least six kinds of pastry.
There are literally millions of recipes onlie, but they’re scattered all over the place. You can’t carry them into the kitchen with you. And so many recipes these days are pretentious, complicated and difficult to make.
The lost arts of cooking - how to make delicious food well and truly from scratch - aren’t as complicated as you might expect. Quite the reverse. And the ingredients are all basic, easy to find in any supemarket.
Best of all, traditional British recipes, on the whole, use traditional British ingredients. So they support responsible local shopping, to the benefit of the environment. Every little helps!
How and where to find an old cookery book? Try charity shops and second hand bokshops. They’re both a rich source of old recipe books, and you can flick through before buying. Ebay and Amazon Marketplace are also a good bet.
r bookmark simple new recipes, a new blog dedicated to the contents of ‘Granny Molly’s’ cookery book.
