As clear and comprehensive as ever, the recipes are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced cooks.

If you were not as lucky to be taught , then this is the best 'surrogate mummy cook' for the nation. Many of us MANY of us were brought up with the 'knowledge', passed on by parents about cuts of meat and fish cleaning techniques.While it does not cover every eventuality, and does have a few glaring omissions, (there's not recipe for plain fudge, for example), it does cover a wide range of starters, main courses, desserts, and so on. There's a full index at the back, for recipes and ingredients, and the whole book is divided into ingredient-based chapters, making it easy to find what you want. I recently had a change in circumstances, and whilst I am a reasonable cook, I needed something to help me diversify in my portfolio. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

What this book does is give you the confidence to develop skills and a reference manual when you need it. Still containing all the established favourites such as Flaky Fish Pie, Christmas Pudding and the secret of crunch Roast Potatoes, Delia has now added exciting new recipes like Stir-fried Mange Tout and Roast Stuffed Gooses with Prunes and Armagnac.There are few cookery books that one can turn to and expect it to have a stab at almost anything you might look-up, but this one is almost it. The Complete Cookery Course is the book that has taken pride of place in kitchens for over 30 years. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.