Home Cookery Year: Four Seasons, Over 200 Recipes for All Possible Occasions

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We have used the 1816 edition, and are confident that most people will be able to cook from this book with ease, perhaps not as readily so as with Good Things in Englandbut nevertheless nearly everyone will be able to adapt Mrs Rundell’s suggestions to present-day use with no difficulty. Even if you have the original, treat yourself (and your friends) to a new copy of this very special anniversary edition. Slice or shred the apples with a peeler or cut them into matchsticks (peel them, if you prefer), putting them straight into the bowl of salted water to prevent discolouration. But the problem with gifting cookbooks is that you either have to go broad, which means celeb chefs, and the risk of giving your mum her third copy of the new Ottolenghi, or you need a deep insight into their personal tastes and their specific desire for a particular cuisine. Deep frying is not my forte but cooking with confidence means that you can place your trust in a good recipe with clear instructions and feel okay with the outcome.

Add the dressing, adjusting with more lime, chilli or fish sauce, if necessary, and serve immediately with the remaining peanuts strewn over the top.Even the recipes under the ‘leisurely weekend cooking’ headings are only listed as such because of the time they take, or the mess they’ll make.

It took a leap of faith and my avid curiosity to try this cake: could a basic sweet batter and some grated courgettes make a good cake? What a beauty… imaginative, appealing recipes grounded in good sense… you can taste the experience, that these are lived recipes. Divided into 17 chapters from nibbles through to vegetarian meals, sauces, baking and even confectionery, it features over 950 recipes.

Paired with a title that Thomson herself admits is more honest than fashionable, I’m ready for a collection of practical, if dull, recipes. After reading in her recipes notes that this is “one of my favourite recipes in the book” and that “when they are fried, heavens above, cauliflower becomes so unbelievably good” I knew this recipes sounded too delicious to pass up. The Dairy Book of Home Cookery takes you through all the essential cooking techniques and now includes over 950 recipes from soups to sauces, dips to desserts, pastry to pickles and curries to cakes. If there is any damage it will be listed in the description and photos to show to the best of our knowledge.

While noodles might make you think more of Asia than Italy, as the pesto here might prompt, buckwheat pasta is also used in Italian cooking. A fragile copy, poor quality paper is tanned and brittle, short tear to fore-edge of most pages, cover tanned and foxed with tears and an area of loss to front cover. And this year, like every other, the big names like Nigella and Jamie are going to get the lion’s share of the sales. Look no further than National Modern Home Cookery from Syndicate Publishing, originally printed in 1936. Try to get hold of some Thai basil – it has a pungent, slightly spicy flavour redolent of liquorice and anise, quite different to standard sweet basil, which has more minty, grassy notes.This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. We first came across her book in Jane Austen’s Cookbook by Maggie Black, since Domestic Cookery is one of the books Jane Austen would have used (had she cooked); our 1816 edition appeared in the same year as Emma. Buckwheat, walnut pesto, avocado, chard and edamame – these are all flavours that work very well together, all earthy and nutty. Claire Thomson, who has made something of a habit of releasing practical, down-to-earth cookbooks over the past five years. In a food processor on pulse or in a mortar with a pestle, pound the garlic, chillies and sugar to a paste.