Perfect: 68 Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire

by Felicity Cloake

Whether you're a competent cook or have just caught the bug, Perfect has a place in every kitchen.Is there a foolproof way to poach an egg? What's the secret of perfect pastry? Could a glass of milk turn a good Bolognese into a great one?The Guardian's 'How to Make' food columnist Felicity Cloake is on a mission to find the perfect staple dishes - from spag bol to brownies to fish pie. Having rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - including Elizabeth David, Delia Smith and Nigel Slater - Felicity has pulled together the best points from each to create the perfect version of 68 classic dishes.Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find the your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - they're all here.'Brilliant . . . finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all' Evening Standard

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Nonfiction, Food and Drink

265 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2011

Reviews

[Penny · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5
Nowhere near as good as I'd hoped.
Any half decent cook will have the bulk of these recipes already sorted and won't want to tinker with what they already do.
It's very basic - do we really need to be told how to make scrambled eggs or roast potatoes. And I'd never add a green pepper to prawn cocktail.
I'd only recommend for a very novice cook - although a novice would do far better starting off with Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food.

[Liquidlasagna]

I hear that people enjoyed the Guardian newspaper articles more which had fuller explanations

and this is more like the edited versions of her stories, to make it 'just enough' information for others...

There's fans for the long and the short versions of her recipes...