Family Cookbook

Reviews of family cookbooks with discounted offers for each family cookbook with recipes from the family recipe cookbook. Includes a review of the Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook.

A Family Cookbook is an essential for any kitchen. These comprehensive cookbooks have a wide range of traditional British recipes ranging from soups, cakes, main courses and puddings. Many of the modern family cookbooks have international recipes and special dietary recipes such as low fat recipes and vegetarian recipes.

One of our most valuable wedding presents, over 20 years ago, was a family cookbook. It was a brilliant present since we'd never cooked for ourselves before and started with a guide to common home kitchen equipment, the ingredients and how to prepare different foods and simple recipes. Later chapters in this family recipe cookbook detailed more complex recipes with its easy to follow step by step instructions. Sadly years of cooking for a growing family saw the original cook book fall apart so many of our favourite family recipes are now in our kitchen recipe scrapbook along with other recipes we've enjoyed cooking over the years.

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Recipe Book Reviews hope that the following family cookbook recommendations will help you choose your own family recipe cookbook.

Little Old Lady Recipes

One of the best family cookbooks published in 2011 is from America and easily purchased at the UK Amazon shop. Little Old Lady Recipes collects home cooking meals and treats from mums, grandmothers and great grandmothers who have been cooking for their families and friends for years. The author, the well-known food writer Meg Favreau, collects these family recipes whilst interlacing them with amusing anecdotes and thrifty tips. With photographer Michael E. Reali they have taken a unique way to illustrate their family cookbook. Rather than show finished recipe and family meal photos they have captured the enthusiasm of their contributors for their food, tucking into their favourite meals or relaxing at home. This works ever so well, making turning each page a joy. Little Old Lady Recipes is all about family cooking and having photos of the head of the family is a clever way of illustrating this family cookbook.

The recipes have few ingredients, using wholesome food and the instructions are so quick and easy to follow, usually only having three or four stages of cooking. There is no fancy cooking here, simply tasty, filling and nutritious foods that every family needs.

There are many benefits to having an American family recipe cookbook in your home and the main advantage is the wide range of traditional US meals that this cook book brings to your kitchen, some of which you may not have thought to serve. Examples include buttermilk biscuits topped with fried eggs, jellied Waldorf salad, candied nuts, chicken potpie, pork chops Hawaiian, latkes, Jewish peach cake, rhubarb pie and lemon meringue pie.

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The little quotes from the grandmothers are worth the price of this family cook book alone. Some of Recipe Book Reviews favourites include:

Cheap food will taste expensive if you know what to do with it. Mary, housewife 72 on the soup stock page.

Always leave people wanting more. That’s a basic rule of sales, and it’s why I always wore long skirts. Molly, principal’s assistant, 84 on the cucumber tea sandwiches page.

Club soda is a wonderful thing. You can use it to remove any stain, or mix it with gin and drink until you don’t care about the stain anymore. Chastity, deli clerk, 72 on the gimlets recipe.

Little Old Ladies family cookbook is conveniently divided into chapters with recipes for breakfast, soup, salad, casseroles, appetizers and refreshments, suppers, side dishes and sweets.

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Example recipes include frosted cinnamon rolls, grits, prune bread, borscht, chicken noodle soup, chili con carne, tuna surprise casserole, deviled eggs, pigs in a blanket, hot toddy, ladies party punch, fried chicken, goulash, pot roast, meat loaf, spaghetti sauce, corn bread, bourbon balls, bread pudding, homemade ice cream, jellyroll, really good chocolate cake, sugar cookies, apple pie and pumpkin pie.

Little Old Lady Recipes was first published in 2011 by Quirk Books Philadelphia and makes a great family cookbook present for Christmas or for those setting up their first home. It would equally bring joy to the most seasoned of cooks looking to add to his or her collection of family cookbooks.

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Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook

Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook brings together many of the traditional family recipes from the UK and also international family recipes. Si King and Dave Myers, The Hairy Bikers', recognise that mum knows best and organised a series of recipe fairs around Britain to gather some of the best family recipes for their new family cookbook.

So there are over 100 simple meals, Sunday roasts, Sunday dinners and much more recipes from grandmothers, mums and daughters, with many of the recipes being handed down through the generations, tweaked and updated for the modern palate. Chapters in this family cookbook also gather recipes for the nation's favourite drinks. Recipes include roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, toad in the hole, best ever roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, chilli con carne, mince and dumplings, steak and ale pie,

cottage pie with cheesy mash, steak and kidney pudding spotted dick, rum babas, bread and butter pudding, crumpets and lemon drizzle cake. As readers journey through the Hairy Bikers' family cookbook they encounter more complex dishes, made so easy by Si King and Dave Myers, such as whole poached salmon, coronation chicken, meat and potato pie, spaghetti alla carbonara, chicken curry, baked Alaska and even how to make your own piccalilli and tomato chutney. Vegetarian dishes include a filling mushroom risotto.

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Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook recognizes the multicultural family kitchen of modern day Britain with contributions from community groups including some delicious looking meals from Estonia such as cheese kringel, Romanian pretzels, Ghanaian guinea fowl with red chilli and yam balls and Portuguese green bean soup. Nepalese dishes from the Gurkhas are mutton curry with sauce, curried potatoes and sesame chutney, Chinese sweet and sour pork Hong Kong style come from the Chinese older people's group in Oxford, the African Caribbean community groups provided Si and Dave with a chicken and vegetable stir fry recipe and the famous British Woman's Institute WI recipes include scones and mustard mash. American dishes include Texas cornbread, Southern cornbread, pork BBQ ribs and Boston baked beans, buttermilk pie and key lime pie.

Some tradition British family recipes in this family cookbook have not only included their much loved recipe but also modern or ethnic twists. So for example beside the traditional rice pudding recipe there is a Portuguese rice pudding and a Balinese rice pudding.

Regional family dishes from around Britain are also included in this family cook book and include pan haggerty from the North East of England, Welsh griddle cakes and Manchester tart.

Amongst the recipes in this family recipe cookbook are some wonderful photos of Si King and Dave Myers in the kitchen having fun and enjoying their food and friendship. There are also some charming photographs of the contributing nans, mothers and daughters whose family recipes appear in Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook.

There are pictures of most of the family recipes along with ingredients and easy to follow instructions for cooking. Recipe Book Reviews love the Hairy Bikers' cook books for many reasons and this includes their friendly way of writing making their recipes ever so easy to follow. We also adore their little snippets above each recipe which includes personal thoughts, memories and hints and tips - though you may wish to brush over their tip for crimping minced meat plate pie - using mum's false teeth!

Recipes are quick and easy to prepare and bake which is good news for busy families and the ingredients won't break the bank account, making this a realistic family cook book. It's such a pleasure to read throughout or just to flick through looking for inspiration for a meal. Sections in Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook is broken down to family favourites, show off food, good simple uppers, birthday treats, Sunday dinners and picnics. Within the birthday treats section there are recipes for very special chocolate mousse trio and sausage plait whilst the picnic food section includes variations of the scotch egg which includes a black pudding or smoked haddock filling, sticky ginger and soy chicken wings, courgette fritters, victoria sandwich, game pie, hot chicken salad, Maryland chicken and sticky date cake.

Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook was first published in 2010 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson with photography by Cristian Barnett. It is a must for any family kitchen.

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For a family cookbook which has modern recipes based on Scottish food and recipes read the Recipe Book Reviews Eating In page.