Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course - Delia Smith Reviews

This book has been on our bookshelves for ages, as it is a really great reference book. There is usually always the basic recipe you are looking for in this book. However as it is an older book it does not include some newer ingredients, and does tend to include more traditional english cuisine, rather than newer culinary influences. The recipes ...  Read the complete review

This cookery book is a kitchen essential. Unless you have someone who can teach you the ins and outs of good British cooking then you have no excuse not to own this book. And even if you do have such a person in your life, then I guarantee you that he/she owns it anyway. How do you make the perfect sunday roast? Delia will actually ...  Read the complete review

Two years ago, my daughter was getting married and asked me to make her wedding cake. I have only made one wedding cake before, and that was my own when I married in 1979, but I no longer had the recipe that I had used, however, I remember it involved using a huge bucket to stir all the ingredients in, to then divide between the three layers. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

This is defiantly my favourite Delia smith cookery book. (If you do not already no who Delia smith is, she is a famous British cook - not chef. I say this because she does not work in a restaurant she mainly does her work in the family kitchen, demonstrating how to cook traditional dishes like roast dinner, right down to the very basics of how to ...  Read the complete review

Ah, Delia - mention her name in our house and the immediate response is a giggly 'Where are you?' thanks to a somewhat tipsy TV appearance (nothing to do with cookery and a lot to do with Norwich football club!) some years ago. But what about the cooking? Well I have very little time for her how to boil an egg, or spending almost as ...  Read the complete review

DELIA SMITH'S COMPLETE COOKERY COURSE The book that I am reviewing is more than 15 years old and is the hardback version. I have seen paperback versions in the shops and also ones that are a smaller size than my copy. However, I believe the content is mostly the same. ***What's it all about?*** This is a complete ...  Read the complete review

Delia Smith is a well known in the celebrity chief circle and has had her share of controversy. She has previously done several TV series including how to cook and egg which I thought was going to be pointless till I was drawn into the series of how to cook basic foods well. Her most recent book how to cheat at cooking uses ...  Read the complete review

All our family own this book and it has been a mainstay of our kitchens for years. It is clear and concise, yet occasionally rather complicated. The pictures are good, but there aren't very many. They copy I have (paperback) has almost worn out and will need to be replaced soon as the binding is poor. That said, it is still used for ...  Read the complete review

An interesting cookery book for me to have chosen, but informative ideas and very rich food can be gleaned from this book. She starts with the simple guides to food and what the different things are like all the different spices and herbs, and then she works through tools and utencils to use and then to the main recipes. I found ...  Read the complete review

his is the classic cookery book, that if you only have one book, and you're not a trained chef, get this one. This second edition isn't wildly different from the first edition - I haven't done a direct comparison so I can't comment on what has been revised, but you wouldn't want this if you already had it, so i gues that's not too important. What ...  Read the complete review

Full review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a great fan of Delia Smith, but I owe her a debt of gratitude. My mother always told me that I couldn't cook and in my youth constantly derided my efforts to produce anything edible. It's the sort of thing that sticks. One day in ...  Read the complete review

I use this book as a general reference, but have found one or two flaws. Some of the cooking times for roast meats are excessive, especially pork, I reocmoned 5 mins off the pound from what Delia suggestes. Portions. It seems to me that Delia doesn't ever have to feed anyone who is hungry. You may want to make anything up to ...  Read the complete review

I bought a copy in 1985 and have used it ever since on at least a weekly basis. it has just about everything you could possibly need to know about cooking. Done in a common sense way so that even a man could understand it (sorry guys). My book no longer has a front cover its been used that often and there are certain pages, like 548 ...  Read the complete review

The way to a mans heart is through his stomach. Thanks to Delia Smith I have a direct line to men’s hearts! Now the art of cooking is no mystery and you don’t need extensive lessons to master it. ~~~~ My Story ~~~~ When I was in my final years of school I shunned cookery and needlework classes and instead took metalwork. ...  Read the complete review

My mum gave me this book last Christmas, to stop me phoning her to ask how much flour I should put in my Yorkshire pudding mix, and this really is the perfect solution The book starts with a well laid out equipment section, which doesn't just tell you what to buy, but actually tells you WHY. Even if you don't rush out and buy ...  Read the complete review

Delia's first definitive 'Complete Cookery Course', a modern classic if ever there was one. Not for nothing is Delia known as the Mrs Beeton of our age. Jo is no mean cook herself and, with an A-level in domestic science, is pretty well qualified in the culinary arts. Whether experimenting with something new or just seeking ...  Read the complete review

For all the budding cooks out there, I think this book is a basic requirement of the kitchen bookshelf. Laid out in an easy to follow way, it gives advice to all us burnt toast types about what equipment you should have in a basic kitchen, including the different types available and what quality to buy. The book is laid out in ...  Read the complete review