The Glasgow Cookery Book: Centenary Edition

My second copy I have one from 1970 need a metric edition, very pleased with it

Love this book!!

This was a gift to my sister and her husband. They were both delighted with it.

The book is good in case the reader is only interested in having tons of recipes including some very basic ones. There are no color pictures and the cultural context and the side notes provided are strictly limited.

Great book for an expat like me.Some things can be a little hard to find but nothing terrible.This is a real cookbook. Not 10 recipes and lots of picture, this has hundreds of solid recipes.Very useful if you garden too.

This could prove to be a very useful cookery book for me. I got the 2009 Centenary Edition of this book, which has an extensive, well-illustrated introduction looking back over the first 100 years of "The Dough School".The recipe section of the book is packed with ideas for standards. You won't find any on-trend expensive or hard to source ingredients here, but it also has a plethora of advice for good basic techniques. If you have a family member that needs to learn to cook from scratch or if you feel your own skills need brushing up with making pastry, batters, breads or preparing meat, poultry, game, fish or vegetables, it's all here.What this book doesn't have is pictures telling you what your finished dish should look like - and the vast majority of recipes are basic enough not to need them. There are a few line drawings to demonstrate methods such as the most efficient way to make sausage rolls, which could be useful for those who need them. The recipes themselves are set out in the more or less the standard format, appetisers, soups, meat and fish etc with separate sections for meat pies and pastries. breakfasts, omelettes and a few more unusual categorisations. A very good Index helps you find what you are looking for.Whilst this is called The Glasgow Cookery Book and there are lots of regional recipes (stovies are 'stoved potatoes') it doesn't have the same Scottish emphasis as  Maw Broon's Cookbook: The Broon's Cookbook - for Every Day and Special Days  from the same publishers. That book is lovely but the recipes can be hard to follow - this one is the exact opposite and as such, more practical.So many of these recipes are ones that can be cooked from store-cupboard and fridge ingredients. I've already ear-marked one that I have all the ingredients for and I am looking forward to trying some more. This may be based on basics, but there was plenty that was new to me, too. Maw Broon's Cookbook: The Broon's Cookbook - for Every Day and Special Days

Comprehensive cookbook every home should have one! It's not only just for recipes it's a good cookery reference book. I can see why mothers brought and still buy their daughters this book. It's a great cookery book a must for anyone setting up home and a good buy for anyone leaving home to go to university.

When I opened this I realised that this was my mother's go to cookery book. Hers was a very old edition and it had long since lost its cover so I never knew exactly what book it was. This is what it was. In here you will find tried and trusted recipes. A great book. This arrived on time and was a very good price. Thanks.

This is a great cookery book, and one that I followed rigidly when I studied at the Dough School 45 years ago. I was one of the first group of men to study there when it became the Queen’s College in 1976. The recipes are traditional and standard, easy to follow and perfect for any budding chefs/cooks.

My origional edition was a wedding present from a farmer in the late 1970s. It had fallen to bits a while ago through over use.I miss the photographs of the carcases and the cuts of meat but along with the potted heid perhaps they were not for everyone.