I hardly knew how to boil an egg when I got married many years ago - but this fabulous cook book helped me a lot. I also loved it because of the fabulous colour pictures and illustrations.
It is the Hamlyn All in One Cook Book first published in 1976. The illustrations are by Robin Laurie - aren't they great!
It also has lots of photographs as well as step by step guides to choosing ingredients and very easy to follow recipes.
Always came to my rescue when I was having friends round for dinner and wanted something a wee bit special.
Do you have a favourite recipe book?
Love Liz
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17 comments:
I've never seen this cookbook before and I love it! Thank you for sharing it; I will have to try and see if I can find a copy some day.
Looks like such a fun recipe book . . .
I have more than one recipe book that would call favorite . . .
Non as colorful as yours . . .
Wow, what a fabulous book! I love books like this, the illustrations are always wonderful and the recipes are so fun to look at too! xx
I loved seeing this vintage cookbook. It brought back great memories of that time as I too got married in the mic 70's. But, luckily it doesn't feel that long ago :) Have a wonderful day (evening), Pat xx
What lovely illustrations. They would certainly inspire me to get cooking.
I love the illustrations on that book :)))
well one sunset cookbooks helped me a lot as well.. Ur illustrations are lovely. Hope your new week is going well. With love Janice
What a lovely cook book! I have a vintage one from Carnation Instant milk that I loved as a kid, and I still love looking at the illustrations. :)
Love the illustrations! A fun cookbook can really help inspire!
Hugs, Dianne
Neat cooking book, so nostalgic now. xoxo Su
Hi Liz,
how wonderful that you still have it. I wonder if my mum had this as the cover looks familiar. The illustrations are very colourful. Have a lovely day, Linda x
A lovely and colourful book, I have an original Bero book that belonged to my nan and has her writing in it from where she has adapted a recipe and made it her own.
Its a beautiful looking book.
Fondly Michelle
Fab illustrations - I also have one that lists a sample menu for a teenage party, I think it's a Sainsbury's series from the 80s. My Mum and Mother in Law both had them and now I use them. I was a bit of an odd child and enjoyed reading cookery books - another favourite was a Readers Digest one called 'Farmhouse Cookery, recipes from the country kitchen'. It was a big hardback and I especially liked the chapter on making your own sweets!
What amazing illustrations! I am often drawn to cook books, but then end up making just a few recipes again and again and ignoring all the others, so I made myself stop buying them! Xx
A super colourful cookbook. I do like a browse through a cookbook and in my teens made up two cook scrap books, one sweet and one savoury. Unfortunately I still like looking at the books rather than doing the cooking. Happily my husband likes to cook!
such a pretty and colourful book, I'm not surprised you love it so much.
I tend to go to the Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best book when I need certain things, like a really good gravy in a pie. Their gravy for their meatballs recipe is fantastic. Really easy, super tasty, and works brilliantly every time. That, and an After Tea book with a Victoria sponge recipe that always works for me, are the two books I use most. Which is sad really, I have a lot.
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