This cookbook is old. I think it might have come from my grandmother’s collection, or perhaps my mother’s. It dates from the late 70s to early 80s, there isn’t a date inside to indicate exactly when it was published, but it was a whole $2.95 at the time for 200 recipes. The Best of New …
Tag: pie
Jul 06
Cookbook 44: vegie food: low-fat & delicious
This weekend’s book was the Australian Women’s Weekly vegie food: low-fat & delicious. Quite frankly I’d rather see a “vegie food – all the tastiness we can cram in, bugger the fat”, but apparently that isn’t done. I’m not going to get into the argument that vegetarianism is better for your health than any other …
Jun 10
Cookbook 41: Cooking Class Cookbook
And may I present the Australian Women’s Weekly Cooking Class Cookbook. I suspect that this cookbook was published before the AWW ensured their recipes were all triple tested, because there are some very odd instructions here, and some very weird page layout decisions. Also, the photography dates from the late 70s early 80s, so the …
Jul 16
Cookbook 5: chocolate
So this week, just to do something different, I picked up chocolate, by Australian Gourmet Traveller, for something different. This time, as there were no meat dishes, I cooked 4 recipes, a biscuit, bread, pie, and pudding. I remembered to take photos, and everything was incredibly good, though some were quite fiddly. I’ll list the …
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