| The Paupers Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Jocasta Innes
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 6880
Media: Paperback
Edition: New ed.
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0711222401
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780711222403
ASIN: 0711222401
Publication Date: October 2, 2003
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The best cookbook money can buy! October 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My mother in law has a very old copy of this book and my husband raved on and on and on and on...... about it. After finally finding our own copy I gave it a look and fell in love with it's simplicity. We are now the proud owners of three!!!! copies, and the newest is an amalgam of the previous two. However, there are some notable abscences eg Irish Tea Brack and Ginger Bread Men. It's the kind of book which although it gives you a recipe to follow gives you the confidence to alter the ingredients to fit what you have in the cupboards. Thank you Jocasta Innes.
Uni Student November 20, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I picked up the original 1971 edition at a car boot sale a couple of years ago, and now it's a crummy, sticky, stained mess from hanging out in student kitchens. I should have treated it better as it enabled me and my friends to stay plump and happy through the first years of university. A fantastic book, with some real classics (although i must admit to being a little intimidated by the dish that asks for a whole cow's head)
Fab food for the frugal cook but bad indexing June 9, 2006
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
An excellent cookbook. Worth buying for the Onion, Bacon and Potato Hotpot alone which a previous reviewer mentioned. The dish of herring roes and peas is also delicious, as is Alsation Onion Tart and Keema Matar.
It should be noted however, that this is not the original 1971 edition. Nor is it the 1992 edition The New Pauper's Cookbook. It is best described as an amalgam of the two books. I never saw the first book but I loved the second one and am even more delighted with this one, which seems to have all the recipes from the second book plus some wonderful offaly dishes from the original book.
I couldn't find the recipe for Flemish beef mentioned by another reviewer. This may be because it was in the earlier edition or it may be due to the book's one flaw - the index. I have never come across such an unhelpful index. I turned to it to look up an apple recipe to find that there were no entries listed for 'a' at all. I had to trawl through 'puddings' instead, and that wasn't very helpful, only listing recipes alphabetically by title not ingredient as well. Good indexes are vital in cookbooks.
The Pauper's Cookbook January 6, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is the cookbook that my mother taught herself to cook with in the 1970s and that she gave to me when I left home. It is such a wonderful book--it teaches how to cook really good food without using any junk, tricky ingredients or waste. Everything I have ever made from it has been delicious and despite having a large collection of cookbooks, this is still my favourite. When I got my first Le Creuset pot its inaugural use was to make Flemish Beef Stew which was superb. And whilst the recipes are wonderful, the best thing about The Pauper's Cookbook is the way Jocasta Innes seems to talk directly to you as you cook. I often find myself chuckling as I read. Sheer delight!
Who needs Delia? August 29, 2003
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
As a newly wed in the 70s this was my bible. My main entertaining dish was a beef casserole with wine vinegar (instead of wine)and olives that I served with pasta and green salad. My children loved sliced onions, potatoes and bacon cooked in a white sauce - was it with cheese? I lost my original,a very stained and battered copy, during life's upheavals and will certainly be ordering. Every recipe works!!
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