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 food

Based 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 Inbunden Omfång 576 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Octopus Publishing Group Utgivningsdatum 2024-10-01 ISBN 9781804192764