Product Description

Oxtail soup, stuffed tomatoes, kedgeree, rhubarb and custard... Take yourself back to a time when things were done properly... In "The Good Granny Cookbook", Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall takes us on a nostalgic culinary pilgrimage, rediscovering the sort of robust, wholesome food that our grandmothers, or even great-grandmothers, used to make. With delicious recipes, all delightfully informed by reminiscences and anecdotes of her own childhood, this is much more than a cookbook - it is a classic to be handed down from generation to generation, the perfect present for old and young alike.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17856 in Books
• Brand: Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

About the Author
Roger Lewis, bestselling author of the Good Granny Guide and The Good Granny Companion has written many other books on plants and gardening, including Gardening Made Easy and The Imperial Flower. A grandmother of five, and the mother of TV chef Hugh, she lives with her husband in Gloucestershire.

Customer Reviews

Great family cookbook and a great read
The Good Granny Cookbook is far more than just a collection of recipes. It is a really good read, filled with evocative anecdotes and reminiscences about Jane's childhood growing up in a country house in post-war England. It has a distinctly retro feel with charming black and white illustrations instead of glossy photos and is the antithesis of those oversized aspirational books by so-called celebrity chefs. In my view Jane really gets to the heart of what good food means to many of us. The recipes themselves are an eclectic mix of classics such as treacle tart and shepherds pie (as she herself admits everyone has their own version), forgotten favourites like Queen of Puddings, and more unusual dishes such as Bobotie and Blackcurrant leaf water ice. Most of them are pleasingly straightforward to prepare, although she warns that her bread recipe takes 20 hours from start to finish! I would recommend this book to both young and old - as Jane says in the introduction, "The purpose of this book is to celebrate traditional British home cooking `like Grandma used to make' and encourage another generation to give it a try." This lovely book should do exactly that.

Nicely nostalgic
This isn't a book about cooking with your grandchildren, it's a collection of recipes like Mum or Grandma used to make - brought up to date to suit modern tastes and kitchens. Nothing too tricky here, but plenty of inspiration. I love it and will use it a lot.

A real classic
Amid all those TV celebrity chef cookbooks, this is a real breath of fresh air. Delicious, easy to follow recipes on nearly every page, with none of those ridiculous ingredients lists with silly names you can't pronounce! This is a cookbook for real people, and I even found an old recipe - one of my childhood favourites! - a potato dish,"Champ", that my Irish granny used to make for me. A real classic!