Forgotten Skills of Cooking: 700 Recipes Showing You Why the Time-honoured Ways Are the Best

by Darina Allen

Overview

Based on the hugely popular courses at Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery School, this book reveals the lost art of making creamy butter and yoghurt, keeping a few hens in the garden, home-curing and smoking bacon, and even foraging for food in the wild.

So many of our happiest childhood memories are connected to food. Rediscover the flavours of all-time favourites such as traditional stuffed roast chicken, figgy toffee pudding, and freshly baked scones with strawberry jam. Darina also offers lots of thrifty tips for using up leftovers in delicious ways.

Essential reading for urban and rural dwellers alike, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills.

'There's not much this gourmet grande dame doesn't know.' Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly

'Our first lady of food.' The Irish Independent

'Ireland's answer to Delia and Nigella.' Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804192771
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	10/01/2024
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Darina Allen runs the world-renowned cookery school at Ballymaloe in Ireland and is the bestselling author of Ballymaloe Cookery Course. She campaigns for local produce, is a member of Slow Food Ireland and set up Ireland’s first farmers’ market. Through the East Cork Educational Fund, she runs a programme for local primary schools to help local children learn about food from garden to plate. She won the Guild of Food Writers’ Lifetime Achievement award in 2013.

Editorial Reviews

[Allen's] brief but inspiring how-to sections are what make this book such a keeper…Really, you just want to linger in Allen's homemade world for as long as possible, sipping black-currant-leaf lemonade before wandering from the 100-acre garden to the smokehouse to check on your mussels and hogget.
—The New York Times

Christine Muhlke