Product Details
Author : Delia Smith
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780563362494
Edition : 2Rev Ed
Number of Pages : 640
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 1992-03-05
Publisher : BBC Books
ASIN : 0563362499
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Synopsis
Completely revised and updated, this cookery "bible" for still contains all the established favourites such as flaky fish pie, christmas pudding and the secret of crunchy roast potatoes. Delia has also added some new recipes like stir-fried mange tout and roast stuffed goose with prunes and armagnac. Clear and comprehensive, the recipes are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced cooks. Delia also gives advice on new and widely-available ingredients like easy-blend yeast, filo pastry and fromage frais. Illustrated with 24 mouth-watering new photographs, Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course provides all you need, and more, for a lifetime of cooking and entertaining
Customer Reviews
AMAZIN (2008-04-01)  Ths book is fantastic, I could not have got through my teens without it..The things Delia can do with a Cucumber and a flacid piece of meat are tremdous and a must see..The pictures and diagrams are particularly helpful and arousing
The New Mrs Beeton!! (2008-03-06)  I have had this book since it first came out and it is falling apart now, thus I have to get another!!!
The most sensible Cookbook ever written! (2008-01-03)  If I ever end up on that desert island with my eight records, I only hope and pray that this book makes it with me too!I have just ordered a new (hardback) copy, my 20 year old paperback must needs be pensioned off - not thrown away, I haven't the heart to consign a faithful friend to the bin. I have used it so often, its loose pages even smell of the very recepies they describe! When I bought this book I could hardly boil an egg - twenty years on, I relish having a dozen or so friends round for dinner. Verily, this is The Gospel according to St Delia! An absolute must for any kitchen!
I can't praise this enough - the most used of my cookbooks! (2007-12-30)  I bought this book about five years ago and it is the book to which my husband and I refer over and over for guidance as well as recipes - for cooking cuts of meat, poaching eggs etc. I still use Delia's recipe for Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, not to mention her recipe for roast leg of lamb (a butter and herb coating). Even just for the definitions and descriptions of cooking methods, along with recommended equipment for cooking, I would recommend this book. May it be as well-thumbed a volume in your kitchen as it is in mine.
The only cookery book you'll ever really need (2007-11-12)  As a keen cook, I rate this as the best cookery book ever. Unless you yearn to make bacon & egg ice cream or snail porridge, it contains almost every recipe you are are likely to want.As in all her books, Delia Smith manages to give useful tips without ever sounding patronising. Follow her instructions and the recipes always work! The general advice sections on cooking and equipment are also really useful, while the introductions and anecdotes are a good read. PS - When I wrote this review, I didn't realise the paperback edition doesn't have any illustrations. (The cheaper hardback apparently has a few - but not as many as the original.) It may not bother a lot of people, but I think the pictures are quite useful - and sometimes inspiring. Personally, I'd go for the Complete Illustrated edition. It'll last 20 years so it's well worth the extra few pounds.
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