The Pauper's Cookbook
by Jocasta Innes
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Jocasta Innes shows that delicious and stylish cooking does not have to rely on expensive ingredients and that budget food does not mean simply opening a tin or a packet. Frugal and inventive tips on sensible shopping, using leftovers and creating home-made versions of store-bought favourites help to cut the costs at every stage.Tags
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A cookbook for those on a budget, this nice little book was a lifesaver for me in college. I tried many of the recipes, some successful, some not so, perhaps due to my ineptitude. But it's a nice useable book for the impecunious college student.
A classic of its time - my Mum gave me this book to take up to university in 1978. I did use it too, but not until my second year when I moved into London bedsitland and the joys of a two-ring Baby Belling cooker!
I remember buying this before going to live in a bedsit in Clyde Road in West Didsbury, Manchester in 1975. It has the label of the long-gone Robert Fludd bookshop inside it - 65 Palmerston Road, Southsea, phone number Portsmouth 25345. There were several bookshops in Southsea at that time. Where are they now? I never used the book.
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Penguin Handbooks (PH224)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1971
- Dedication
- TO MY MOTHER
- First words
- My first attempt at 'real' cooking was, I remember, an Estouffade de Bœuf à la Provençal from Elizabeth David's French Country Cooking.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Baste a few times and leave to cool before serving.
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- English
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