The new edition of Forgotten Skills of Cooking is an essential guide to traditional cookery skills, from making yogurt, butter and sourdough to keeping chickens and foraging for wild foodBased 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 flavors of all-time favorites 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
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1804192767
ISBN13:9781804192764
Release Date:February 2025
Publisher:Kyle Books
Length:576 Pages
Weight:1.77 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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Condition: New
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