Good Housekeeping Cookery Book - Good Housekeeping Institute

I have to admit, starting out on married life, I wasn't the best cook in the world, and that's being kind to myself, in fact, I was terrible and was put to shame by my wife's efforts in the kitchen. In my attempts to rectify this imbalance in order to do my fair share in the kitchen, I tried out several different cookery books and websites unknown to myself, my wife had already bought the 'Good Housekeeping Cookery Book' and I was amazed how good of a book it is. ~~Book Layout~~ The book itself comes in a hardback version with glossy interior pages and colour print, it is well written for even the most novice chef and is separated into several ...  Read the complete review

Having lived for over twenty years in Cairo, where home cooking was the norm, on returning to the UK I gave in to the temptation to try out quite a few of the ready meals that I came across in the supermarkets. I was often short of time, and that was my excuse for not going overboard on home cooking. I did think it might be useful to have a recipe book just in case, and bought The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book for as little as one pound as part of an introductory offer when I joined a book club. It went up on the top shelf of the bookcase, and there it stayed until I thought I would check its advice on roasting the Christmas turkey. It was some ...  Read the complete review

The Good Housekeeping (GH) Institute was established in 1924 by Good Housekeeping magazine to provide women with expert consumer advice. Still going strong today, it test household products and equipment and creates and tests recipes for both GH magazine and its range of cookbooks, of which this is one. With 448 pages, containing over 750 recipes, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this cookbook would be full of text, with nary a picture to be seen. Fret ye not, for it’s actually jammed with full colour pictures, illustrating every (or nearly every) recipe. Not only that, but there’s a ...  Read the complete review

Cookery Book - Good Housekeeping Institute It's a boring title and it has none of the glamour associated with the new wave of celeb chefs - but this is still the top cookery book there is, for a whole host of reasons. Now re-issued in a 50th anniversary edition, this is a cookery book which really does have something for everyone. Need to know how to boil an egg? It's in here. Need to create a desperately grand wedding buffet? That's here too. How about a terribly impressive dinner a deux? you guessed, it's in here. This was one of the first cookery books I bought, and it's about the only one from that era (about 20 years ago) that I ...  Read the complete review

This is a new book to my library of cookbooks. I have always loved the Good Housekeeping books, but was really pleased with this one. The section talks about pots & pans, knives, blenders, mixers etc and is kind of short. It's been done so much better in other books that I don't think they really needed to bother with it here. However, once you get passed this you into the full colour picture index. This is visual treat for any food lover. For easy reference the index is split into sections, i.e. soups, chicken, fish, shellfish, starters, beef & veal, turkey, eggs & cheese, salads, vegetarian, rice, grains & noodles, desserts, cakes etc. ...  Read the complete review