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Recognising A Recipe

I was reading one of my many cook books today, as I do. I have literally hundreds of them, and still buy more. Of course, you don’t actually need cook books at all anymore if you have access to the internet. There are millions of recipes of all kinds available there. Many, many more than could ever be needed in any lifetime.

I do love them though. I love all kinds of books, and have now decided that my love of books in general, and cook books in particular is going to continue to be indulged.

I often take a cook book down of the shelf and either flick through it, looking at various recipes that catch my eye, or read it from front to back, like a novel.

Today, I was reading Nigella Lawson’s lovely book, Kitchen. I love her ideas and flavour combinations. When I put the link in to show you the book, the price was showing as £18, but there were also options to buy second hand from 50p

As I was noting down the odd recipe to make, I suddenly stopped, because there, on the page, was CFR’s Chocolate Nut Cheesecake! I was really surprised to see it as I thought the CFR team had invented that!

It had, of course, been suitably frugalised 🙂

 

Why Not Try....?

Christmas Pudding

Christmas Pudding

cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a monthChristmas Pudding  What do I need to make Christmas Pudding 120 g sugar 60 ml vegetable oil 2 tsp mixed spice 300 ml apple juice 250 g mixed dried fruit 200 g breadcrumbs 1 egg, whisked 100 g...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a monthChocolate Nut CheesecakeAn easy to make chocolate and peanut cheesecake perfect for celebrations of all kinds, or just a Sunday pudding. Lots of possible variations too What do I need to make a...

Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate Brownies

cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthChocolate BrownieI've tweaked this recipe rather from the 2010 original, reducing the sugar, increasing the flour, and changing to a solid fat. I usually use butter now, but any solid fat would work...

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