THE PAUPER'S COOKBOOK. A paperback book written by Jocasta Innes, published by Frances Lincoln

Essential Stats

• Pages: 288
• Published: Thursday 2nd October 2003
• Edition: New ed.
• Dimensions: 20cm tall, 13cm wide, 3cm thick
• Weight: 282 grams
• Dewey Decimal Number: 641.552
• ISBN: 0711222401
• RRP: £7.99
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This book is great. Although the book is aimed at providing top-notch tasting nosh that costs suprisingly little, it goes beyond some of these credit crunch style cookbooks. This book delivers meals of a sensible price. It is compact in size, but it covers most occasions that you would want to provide meals (for yourself, just the two of you, your family or a crowd of mates). I salute the author for the content and her writing style, which is well thought out, guiding the cook through the process from shopping for ingredients to serving up. Concise, precise and really tasty dishes to whet your appetite.

I am so glad that I bought this cookbook because it has helped me to refine the way I organise my weekly food shopping menu and subsequent shopping list. My little toddler and I like making the home made pizza too!

How many people will have noticed that the the wonderful recipe for Boeuf a la Flammande from the first book is missing, I wonder?

In her introduction, Jocasta Innes does mention that there was a demand for many of her original recipes from the 1970s ( "axed for various reasons") to be reinstated, but sadly this one didn't make it into the current edition.

I used this cookbook when I was first married and still have it, minus the cover and a couple of pages. The wonderful thing about it is that it gradually trains you to cook sensibly, finding ways of using up odd ingredients and not wasting food, which is important for us all, but particularly vital for the young and penniless.Favourites: Alsatian onion tart,onion bacon and potato hotpot, pork and beans, (slightly) curried chicken ragout, and the salmon souffle.

I bought the 1st edition of this book in 1971 and fed my 3 growing boys, plus countless unexpected hordes of visitors to our remote farmhouse!
It is still my favourite cookbook and I invested in the lastest version when my original copy finally fell apart! I expect to feed my 5 grandchildren with some of these tried and tested recipes over Xmas 2009!
Jocasta's Fish Pie has been a top favourite over the last 30 years - it never lets me down!!
Poor or not, this book could well be the only cookbook you will ever need.

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