Cooking books

[Cuchilo]

Ive just been to look at a job where the elderly relative has been put into a home . Everything was to be thrown out and i noticed a few cooking books on the pile . With permission i took a few . One from 1966 , one from 1925 and 1927 called cooking with radiation ( for use with the " new world " regulo-controlled gas cookers
Once i find the cake chapters ill post a few up

 

[vernon]

I was given a 1950s Be-Ro cookbook to take to university with me. It had helpful instructions like 'place in a moderate oven' and 'place in a cool oven'. It was insightful of the author of the cookbook to match the oven temperatures to the temperament of my housemates.

My first pies and pasties were made using the flaky pastry and puff pastry recipes. The book disappeared during one of my house moves in the early eighties and I keep meaning to purchase a direct replacement from Ebay but haven't got round to it yet.

 

[annedonnelly]

I've got a Be-ro book of a similar vintage to @vernon's It was my mum's. I've got a 1990's style one that she bought for me and I got the newest one last year. It's interesting to see that some recipes disappeared in the 1990s but have come back in the latest one.

The latest one seems to favour putting all the ingredients in at once and beating rather than the more traditional creaming butter & sugar then adding eggs & flour. My Christmas cake is always made from the recipe in the 1990's one.

 

[midlife]

I was given a 1950s Be-Ro cookbook to take to university with me. It had helpful instructions like 'place in a moderate oven' and 'place in a cool oven'. It was insightful of the author of the cookbook to match the oven temperatures to the temperament of my housemates.

My first pies and pasties were made using the flaky pastry and puff pastry recipes. The book disappeared during one of my house moves in the early eighties and I keep meaning to purchase a direct replacement from Ebay but haven't got round to it yet.

I was sent to Uni in September 1978 with one of those

Shaun

 

[vernon]

I was sent to Uni in September 1978 with one of those

Shaun

Same year, same book. We must be related.

 

[TreeHuggery]

slightly off topic....I've got some first aid books from the 1920s..... back then first aid was done differently if you were treating a female to a male..... and there are lots of instructions for carrying injured people over hedges..... kinda interesting and scary at the same time

 

[Cuchilo]

I was given a 1950s Be-Ro cookbook to take to university with me. It had helpful instructions like 'place in a moderate oven' and 'place in a cool oven'. It was insightful of the author of the cookbook to match the oven temperatures to the temperament of my housemates.

My first pies and pasties were made using the flaky pastry and puff pastry recipes. The book disappeared during one of my house moves in the early eighties and I keep meaning to purchase a direct replacement from Ebay but haven't got round to it yet.

I may be able to help .....

 

[vernon]

My Christmas cake is always made from the recipe in the 1990's one.

The Dundee cake made from the cookbook was to die for.

 

[vernon]

I may be able to help .....

I'd be a very happy Vernon if you could.

 

[Cuchilo]

 

[Cuchilo]