Complete Cookery Course - my cooking bible (Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course - Delia Smith)

Member Name: masterchef98

Product:	Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course - Delia Smith
Date:	06/10/09 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: Loads of basic and more advanced foolproof recipes

Disadvantages: Not many pictures

This book is my cooking bible. It was the first cookbook that I had when I left home and the one I turn to more than any other. It explains how to cook just about anything you could think of and has all sorts of basic recipes for roasting joints, pancakes, pastry etc.

As well as this it has some brilliant recipes for meals, I especially like the section on casseroles and regularly cook just about everything out of there. It also has sections on poultry, fish, eggs, vegetables, baking and preserves so really does cover just about everything.

I find it really useful how Delia comments on the recipes, suggesting things to eat them with, or providing reassurance about how the recipe should look at different stages.

The only downside of the book for me is the lack of photos in it, as I do like to see what I'm going to cook. Having said that I wouldn't want them to cut down on the number of recipes and to provide photos of all of them would make an already big book really huge!

Summary: A must on every cook's bookshelf