Try my Granny’s Delicious Old-Fashioned Recipes

The ‘Nostalgic Cook Book’ reveals all the delicious, healthy, inexpensive and forgotten recipes of yesteryear!

I miss my Grandmother for many reasons… but one thing I often reminisce about is her delicious meals. She didn’t have much money, but we always ate really well – every day she cooked delicious healthy dishes, no ready-made meals in those days!

Before my granny passed away at the grand old age of 94, and having hardly suffered a serious day’s illness in her life, she made sure that I received all her secret recipes.

My husband and I use these recipes every week and it’s no wonder that we have a very healthy family with children who refuse to eat junk food and tasteless supermarket prepared foods. They’re even learning to cook!
I wanted to make sure that granny’s recipes lived on so I decided to write this book. I did extensive research and added a number of other traditional recipes to those of my grandmother, and compiled ‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ — the ultimate book of old-fashioned recipes including many war­time recipes that kept our workforce both happy and healthy, and kept our soldiers fit to fight in the battlefields!

Here’s just a selection of recipes to whet your appetite:

• Bacon Turnovers – traditional fried chopped bacon… made from the best bacon!
• Savoury Potato Cakes – tender potato & fish cakes gently grilled… lovely!
• Cheese and Vegetable Cutlets – delicious oven made cutlets covered in bread­crumbs!
• Woolton Pie – a rich and thick vegetable pie created at the Savoy during the war!
• Poached Kippers – gently boiled, soft and succulent… oh the memories!
• Grilled Pilchards on Toast – made in minutes… tastes wonderful!
• Braised Beef – The softest beef known to man… just melts in the mouth!
• Bacon Hot Pot – thick and tasty bacon stew… so filling!
• Corned Beef Hash – corned beef cooked in an oxtail soup with vegetables… delicious!
• Fish Stew – quick to make, tasty and extremely filling… so traditional!
• Potato Jane – in breadcrumbs, mixed with vegetables and topped with cheese… you can taste it now!
• Savoury Meat Pudding – a tender pastry filled with meat and vegetables… just like your granny used to make!
• Mock Oyster Pudding – soft roes in bread­crumbs and mixed with nutmeg! Not an oyster in sight!
• Soused Herring – with onion and mixed pickled spice… simply fantastic!
• Egg & Cabbage Salad – simple and easy to prepare… tastes wonderful and very filling!
• Yorkshire Pudding – this is the original recipe… need I say more!
• Summer Pudding – stewed fruits with juice, baked bread and custard… enjoy all year round!
• Steamed Pudding with Jam – cooked to just melt on the tongue!
• Steamed Chocolate Pudding – with syrup and milk… simply stunning!
• Bread & Butter Pudding – as soft as it gets… the best around, beats any ready-made pudding any day.

‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ is packed with hundreds of delicious traditional recipes that are quick and easy to prepare. This book comprehensively covers every meal of the day from breakfast to supper, and even has a huge list of desserts. Wonderful home-made meals that taste much better and are much healthier than all those high salt hydrogenated prepared foods on your supermarket shelves!

The recipes are inexpensive, tasty, and guaranteed to provide at least five fruit and vegetables per day that every healthy body needs. Due to the obvious shortages of the war and post war economy the diet had to be kept simple, cheap and above all healthy – providing all the vitamins, proteins and carbo­hydrates required! And what’s more the recipes were easy to prepare and incredibly tasty!

It was a diet low in sugar, fats and salt and high in essential minerals… the best diet for a healthier longer life! ‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ makes it all so simple with advice on seasonal produce making it so easy for you to know exactly what to shop for the whole year round.

Buy locally! ‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ encourages you to buy from your local and national suppliers.

Learn how to use your leftovers

‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ shows you how to make the most of all the food in your kitchen – all those unused packets and tins in your cupboard and all the leftover meat, fruit and vegetables.
‘The Nostalgic Cook Book’ provides a basic, simple and easy to follow step by step guide that enables even the most inexperienced of cooks to make the finest and tastiest of meals.
This book is obviously designed to keep you and your family happy and healthy whilst reducing your costs… but already we’ve had many comments from readers saying that these ‘nostalgic’ meals have proven immensely popular when cooking for friends or having dinner parties — a great talking point all round!

‘Old Fashioned Cleaning Tips’

My granny was a proud woman and would pride herself on having a clean kitchen and a gleaming parlour — some of her best cleaning tips are included in this book. How to have your brass and copperware coming up like new with three household ingredients. Deodorise carpets cheaply and effectively in just 10 minutes. The trick is to use sodium bicarbonate. Need to unblock your drains? In 15 minutes it will be all clear. Learn all these amazing secrets and more.