How many cookery books

[ladylottie]

I think I have about 10, maybe 9.
I'm beginning to feel seriously inadequate....

Don't worry Taff - I have even less, I only have 5. but one IS Delia's which gets used a lot. Mostly nowadays I get recipes off the internet if I fancy a change from Delia.

[jackie j]

I have no idea but I do have loads, hardley ever look at them, flick through some just to see what I should be doing. We tend to always have the same boring food. OH is vegetarian so I find it hard to cook for all of us. I cant be bothered to cook for him and somwthing else for me and daughter and he is so fussy, not allowed to cook meat at the same time.

[piskieinboots]

I'm a very low number as well - although if you were to poll about gardening books, well - that would be so very very different

[Patchninja]

Too many - 2 shelves on my dresser fell off with the weight so I've had a serious clear-out - we don't eat the same way as we did 30 years ago - much lighter, more vegetarian etc so many were redundant. But, I really love my cook books.

[pipkins]

I'm a very low number as well - although if you were to poll about gardening books, well - that would be so very very different

Same here, about 100 gardening books and 1 cookery book

[OverWyreGrower]

I did a count last night and eventually got to 57

Plus 20-25 gardening books!

[Seahorse]

I'm a very low number as well - although if you were to poll about gardening books, well - that would be so very very different

I only have 236 gardening books but on the plus side, I did find another pile of cookery books whilst I was counting them

[SueA]

I just did a quick count & found 70 cook books on the shelves in the kitchen, possibly a few more around the house & lots of leaflets/cards/folders & files with other recipes in. I rarely use them though, probably just dip into about 4 or 5 for favourite recipes & I use the cut out ones in the files a few times a year.
Gardening books I seem to remember counting a while ago & I think I had about 190!

[BrokenOphelia]

Hmm...I have about 30 cooking books, 17 file boxes of printed pages of recipies, saved receipies from newspapers and magazines. Somethings I inherited from my MIL. I do also have several online cook books as it where - join a site then save your favourites to your favourites on the account and treat it like a cook book. I can beat the nearly 400 Seahorse has! I am very young so I am sure I will get there.

[Hilary B]

Only 1 I can actually locate (Good Housekeeping), and a handful somewhere in storage. I just don't USE them.
Gardening.... no, not one. Not enough garden! I rely on what I learned from my Dad and odd bits of info picked up over the years (and asking you lot questions, or, as a last resort, google!)

[CaroltheCarrot]

Today I have 52

[Seahorse]

Ah, Carol... welcome to the darkside

[kalimna]

Hmmm, this thread has prompted me to do a little count - somewhere in the region of 70-80, all the way from Jamie (not as useful as I had hoped), Nigella, Allens' 'Bake' (very good), most of Hugh (an inspiration, esp his fish one), lots of curry/bread books, a fabby pastry one from a Roux brother, Hestons 'how-the-hell-did-he-make-that' Fat Duck recipes.

Though I may not have the most, perhaps I'm in the running for the oldest? It's a Francatellis' Modern Cook, the earliest inscription on the inside cover reading '1883', with further ones at 1934 and 1945....
I havent used any of the recipes in it, and the style is completely different to modern books - more or less "Here are the ingredients, cook until done" rather than hand holding the wannabe cook.
A favourite recipe in it, however, starts "Procure one fine, fat, lively turtle of around 120lbs"
Twas a different lifetime then.....

Adam S

[CaroltheCarrot]

I have one lively nuisance of a tortoise about 3 lbs, how do I cook him

[wellie]

Surely there's a joke here, pertaining to 'It's not what you've got, but what you do with it?'