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The "All In The Cooking" old cookbook thread.

  • 03-11-2005 9:23am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭


    Hi my mother has been looking for a cookbook she used in school in the 60s called "all in the Cooking" -Coláiste Mhuire. Does anyone know where I could get a copy?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    www.abebooks.com will sort you out.

    Do a search on title, and sort the results by name.

    I just checked quickly, and they have it. Just a question of price after that.


    jc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭edengarden


    oh my god you're a life saver - thank you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    No probs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 tommytowers


    Where can i get above title


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Kitchencook


    edengarden wrote: »
    Hi my mother has been looking for a cookbook she used in school in the 60s called "all in the Cooking" -Coláiste Mhuire. Does anyone know where I could get a copy?

    Hi EdenGarden,

    I am looking for the same book or just one recipe from it. It's for rock buns. Can you help me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 qwaszx123


    By some miracle i have this book here and have found this thread on the same day as the previous post. So my good deed for the day:
    Rock Buns
    250g flour
    Pinch of salt
    1 teasp. baking powder
    90g butter or margarine
    1/4 teasp. mixed spice
    A little nutmeg
    90g sugar
    1 egg
    30g mixed peel
    A little milk
    90g currants
    1. Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl.
    2. Rub in the butter. Add sugar, chopped peel, mixed spice, grated nutmeg and currants. Mix well.
    3. Mix to a fairly stiff consistency with a beaten egg, using a little milk if required.
    4. Take a piece of the mixture between to forks and pile on a greased tin. Continue until all the mixture is used.
    5. Bake in a fairly hot oven for about 20 minutes.
    (fairly hot means about 215 Celsius).


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    I went to see if my mam's old cookbook was the same one. Found it, but its "Good Cooking for Everyone" by Mary Meredith.

    May as well type out the recipe, took ages to find the thing.


    Rock Buns

    8 oz self rasing
    pinch of salt
    good pinch of mixed spice
    1 1/2 oz. margarine softened at room temp
    2 oz lard or white cooking fat, softened at room temp
    3 oz granulated sugar
    3 oz currants
    1 oz chopped mixed peal (optional)
    finely grated rind of one lemon
    1 large egg
    about 1 tablespoon of milk
    little extra granulated sugar

    Grease two baking trays ready for baking the buns. If you havent two trays the buns will have to be baked in batches. Set the oven at gas mark 6 or 400 deg F.
    Sift the flour, salt, and spice into a mixing bowl. Add the margarine and lard and cut them into small pieces with a knife. Rub the fat into the flour with the tips of your fingers then stir in the sugar, currants, peal, and rind. Lightly beat the egg and add it to the mixture with the milk and stir well to a stiff consistency. Heap the mixture in small mounds on the baking tray, leaving a space between each for the buns to rise. Sprinkle a little sugar over each bun.
    Bake the buns near the top of the oven for 10 to 15 minutes.
    Slip a palette knife under the buns to lift them away from the tray.
    Cool them on a wire tray.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Kitchencook


    Thank you all for your help. The recipe I was looking for contained coconut and not any dried fruit. Maybe they are called coconut buns but I was sure they were called 'rock buns' in that particular book.
    But thanks for all your help.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40 doherta5


    bonkey wrote: »
    Just a question of price after that.

    I'm pretty sure my mother didn't pay €120 for her copy. A pity it's so expensive, I'd have loved to buy a copy for my sister for Christmas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭eboarde


    I picked this up in a second hand bookshop on the main street in Dunlaoghaire a year or two ago, they had a few copies. Also try upstairs in Chapters on Parnell St.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Rita Loughlin


    plese let me know where i can getr all in the cooking thanks
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭RubyK


    Thank you all for your help. The recipe I was looking for contained coconut and not any dried fruit. Maybe they are called coconut buns but I was sure they were called 'rock buns' in that particular book.
    But thanks for all your help.

    Only recently I was given this book. It belonged to my late Gran Aunt. It's called All in the Cooking, Book 1 Colaiste Mhuire Book of Household Cookery.

    I found a recipe for Coconut Buns below:-

    8 ozs flour
    pinch of salt
    3 ozs butter or marg
    3 ozs sugar
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1 egg
    About 1/2 gill milk (no idea what that means :o)
    2 ozs dessicated coconut

    To decorate - 1 tablespoon of jam. Coconut.

    1) Sieve flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
    2) Rub in the butter, add sugar, coconut and mix well.
    3) Mix to a fairly stiff consistency with well beaten egg and a little milk.
    4) Take a piece of the mixture between two forks and pile on a greased tin. Contine until all the mixture is used.
    5) Bake in a hot oven for about 20 mins.
    6) Brush over with jam, dip in coconut.

    If there are any other recipes you would like, just let me know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭bren50c


    plese let me know where i can getr all in the cooking thanks
    :D
    hope the mods don't mind, but just in case someone is still looking ...
    http://www.adverts.ie/269499/non-fiction/all-in-the-cooking-edco-book-1-third-edition/


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    It appears that the original 1969 Coláiste Mhuire edition is £278 on Amazon. Is the 1975 reprint by The Educational Company just the same text in a later binding?

    Strange that for such a successful and useful book that it went out of print: it must surely be worthwhile to reissue it now. It has all the basic recipes for things that are considered "beneath" the modern cook, although a few pages are admittedly hopelessly out-of-date — I think the recipe for Chili con Carne recommends half a teaspoon of chili powder whereas now you would start with 6–8 whole chilis :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 19 Noctua


    Gosh. I have that book. I don't think I would ever part with it though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 Querygirl


    Hi just wondering does anyone know where I can get this book? My mam talks about this book at least once a week and I would LOVE to get it for her! Any help will be greatly appreciated.


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    Querygirl wrote: »
    Hi just wondering does anyone know where I can get this book? My mam talks about this book at least once a week and I would LOVE to get it for her! Any help will be greatly appreciated.
    By the look of it, it's simply not available. Those who have a copy are hanging onto them; and the copy I mentioned seeing on eBay was a couple of hundred yoyos. The only option seems to be to get someone to photocopy it for you -- technically illegal, but if the publisher has ceased to exist and you can't locate the authors to ask them, then the copyright is effectively abandoned, so who is going to sue?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 siobhy


    Hello, would you be interested in selling your 'All in the cooking ' cookbook, if so my email is skinane@hotmail.com Kind regards Siobhan in Tipperary


  • Registered Users Posts: 26 thatone


    I was looking for this or similar too and I have to say I loved Darina Allens Forgotten skills of cooking as a good book with all the important stuff in it. I recommend!


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    siobhy wrote: »
    Hello, would you be interested in selling your 'All in the cooking ' cookbook, if so my email is [redacted] Kind regards Siobhan in Tipperary

    I'm really sorry — I use the book all the time and couldn't part with it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭curly from cork


    I have my mothers copy circa 1950 . I would be happy to photo copy any recipe you want if that helps ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 lynelee


    Hi EdenGarden,

    I am looking for the same book or just one recipe from it. It's for rock buns. Can you help me.

    Hey there. I have this book so if you are still needing the recipe I will give it to you.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭curly from cork


    Hi EdenGarden,

    I am looking for the same book or just one recipe from it. It's for rock buns. Can you help me.

    Rock Buns from the new and revised edition of All in the cooking 1954

    8 oz flour
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1/4 teaspoon mixed spice
    3 oz sugar
    1 oz mixed peel
    3 oz currants
    pinch salt
    3 oz butter/marg
    a little nutmeg
    1 egg
    a little mik

    Sieve flour salt and baking powder into bowl
    rub in butter add sugar chopped peel currants nutmeg and mixed spice
    mix well
    mix to a fairly stiff consistency with a beaten egg using a little milk if required.
    take a peice of the mixture between 2 forks and pile on a greased tin. continue until all mixture is used.
    bake in a hot oven for about 20 mins


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 samandtigger5


    Hi im looking for an old cookery book all in the cooking it was out in 80s when i was at school , think it was written by deidre madden but not to sure about authur it had a green cover


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    Hi im looking for an old cookery book all in the cooking it was out in 80s when i was at school , think it was written by deidre madden but not to sure about authur it had a green cover

    This whole thread is about that book.
    Or didn't you read the earlier posts?

    It's unobtainable, AFAIK, unless you can persuade someone to sell their copy (unlikely), or pay several hundred yoyos on eBay or Amazon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 annahoran


    Hey, My mam was looking for this book! Does anyone know who published it? There's obviously a great demand for it and I was going to e-mail them about maybe re-printing a few copies? Most likely a long shot but anyway it's worth a try!


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    annahoran wrote: »
    Hey, My mam was looking for this book! Does anyone know who published it? There's obviously a great demand for it and I was going to e-mail them about maybe re-printing a few copies? Most likely a long shot but anyway it's worth a try!

    Marnell, Josephine B; Breathnach, Nora M; Marin, Ann A; and Murnaghan, Mor. All in the Cooking, Volume 1, The Educational Company of Ireland, Dublin, 1975.

    It was first published in 1946, and stopped in the late 70s, I think. The ECI was owned by Longman Browne and Nolan, later Richview Browne and Nolan, and is now defunct, I believe.

    It's therefore unclear who owns the copyright; it may be abandoned. A publisher would need a lot of demand to reprint: you can't "reprint a few copies" of a paper book.

    However, I am a typesetter: if someone is prepared to scan and OCR the text, I would be prepared to see if the successors to the publisher can be found, and see if we can cut a deal to do an electronic edition.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Wendy123


    Is there any chance one of you lucky people who has a copy, could remind me how to make the delicious Sponge Cake that's in that book? Or share the Fudge recipe?
    Thank you so much in advance!;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    Wendy123 wrote: »
    Is there any chance one of you lucky people who has a copy, could remind me how to make the delicious Sponge Cake that's in that book? Or share the Fudge recipe? Thank you so much in advance!;)
    At the risk of awakening the sleeping publisher and authors, I have made a typographic facsimile of the Sponge Cake recipe in its context. You can download the PDF at http://silmaril.ie/downloads/aitc1-extract.pdf


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Wendy123


    Thank you so very much, this is fantastic!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 Hazel2011


    Hi Everyone,:D
    My goodness I would love soooo much to get my hands on this book, I have been in search of this for quite some time . it is for my own use only. My mother-in-law gave me this book as a gift but with moving house unfortunately a box of my loved books went missing :(.
    Please please please if any one does decide to sell their copy or know where I can buy one ....let me know.
    Thanks, Hazel2011
    ps....Unfortunately I cant afford to spend 1oo's euros on this book


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    Hazel2011 wrote: »
    Hi Everyone,:D
    My goodness I would love soooo much to get my hands on this book, I have been in search of this for quite some time . it is for my own use only. My mother-in-law gave me this book as a gift but with moving house unfortunately a box of my loved books went missing :(.
    Please please please if any one does decide to sell their copy or know where I can buy one ....let me know.
    Thanks, Hazel2011
    ps....Unfortunately I cant afford to spend 1oo's euros on this book

    Once I am free of current commitments (Sept/Oct) I will make a formal approach to the publishers about doing a reissue.

    P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 Hazel2011


    Thank you so much :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    I too have a copy so can post recipes if needed:D Good ole home economics days:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 marny55


    is there any chance somebody could post the Sherry Trifle recipe?

    Its from the All In The Cooking Cookbook i think.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    marny55 wrote: »
    is there any chance somebody could post the Sherry Trifle recipe?

    Trifle

    6 small sponge cakes, or one 20cm sponge cake
    Raspberry jam
    2 tablesp. sugar
    2 tablesp. water
    1 glass sherry

    For the custard:
    250ml milk
    2 eggs
    1 level tablesp. sugar
    Flavouring

    To decorate:
    250ml whipped and sweetened cream
    Cherries, angelica and shredded almonds

    Method:
    1. Split the sponge cakes, spread jam between, prick with a fork and cut into three of four pieces, and arrange in a glass dish.
    2. Put sugar and water in a saucepan, bring to the boil, boil for 2 minutes. Cool and add sherry.
    3. Pour this syrup over the sponge cakes, and leave soaking for about 20 minutes.
    4. Make the custard as on page 153. Allow to cool, and pour over the sponge cakes.
    5. When cold, pipe roses of cream on top.
    6. Decorate with cut cherries, angelica and shredded almonds

    [My note: don't put almonds on top until the last second before serving, or they will go soggy.]

    p.153:
    Custard Sauce

    1 egg
    200ml milk
    1 teasp. sugar
    Flavouring

    [My note: this is for the pouring variety. The ingredients given under "Trifle" are needed for a custard that will set. The method is the same. By "Flavouring" the authors probably meant a little bottle of vanilla essence. You would need 3-4 drops as it is usually very strong. Nowadays you would let a vanilla pod soak in the milk for an hour or so beforehand, or even scrape the insides into the milk.]

    1. Beat the egg with the sugar and flavouring.
    2. Heat the milk, add it to the egg.
    3. Put into a heavy saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until the custard coats the back of the wooden spoon.

    [My note: this WILL go wrong and become scrambled egg the first time you do it. Don't worry: experiment on yourself before making it for others. Keep the heat low and sir CONSTANTLY, and take it off the heat when you think it ought to have a few minutes more, as it will continue to thicken slightly while the residual heat from the saucepan lasts.]

    ///Peter


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 marny55


    Thank you very much Peter

    Really appreciate that

    :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭Young_gunner


    Hi

    Apologies to resurrect an old thread but does anyone know where I could purchase a copy of this book? "all in the cooking"

    Have tried online til the cows come home and can't get it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    Hi

    Apologies to resurrect an old thread but does anyone know where I could purchase a copy of this book? "all in the cooking"

    Have tried online til the cows come home and can't get it.

    As far as I understand it (and from all the comments on here) it simply is not available, not anywhere, not for any money. Anyone who has a copy is hanging onto it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,604 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    We have it at home as well. Make the Pancake Tuesday batter out of it every year!

    If anyone is really stuck for a recipe from it PM me and I will post!


  • Registered Users Posts: 36 sonichic


    Hi, I am looking for the old wedding cake recipies from this book. From what I remember there were three sizes. I would really appreciate it if some one could help me, many thanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭frisket


    sonichic wrote: »
    Hi, I am looking for the old wedding cake recipies from this book. From what I remember there were three sizes. I would really appreciate it if some one could help me, many thanks
    There is nothing at all about wedding cakes in my 1975 edition, neither in the index or under Bread and Cakes. It's possible that a later (or earlier) edition mentioned them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 36 sonichic


    Thank you for reply. It must be from an earlier edition but definitely from this book. I wonder was it called something else in the later edition. I'm actually looking for it for a Christmas cake. I know there was 36 oz mixed fruit in the cake but I have lost the recipe. Thanks again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 EllaCarl


    I've been looking for this book for years to get just one recipe from it. We used it in school and everything we cooked from it was delicious.

    May I ask, very kindly, for a copy of one recipe? Please? :)
    It's Swiss Apple Pudding. And it was SO delicious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭biddywiddy


    Here you go!

    Swiss Apple Pudding

    6 oz crumbs
    1.5 oz melted butter
    1 oz brown sugar
    Grated rind of 0.5 lemon
    2 or 3 apples
    1 oz sugar
    1 tbsp water
    Browned crumbs

    1. Grease a 5-inch cake tin and line it with browned crumbs.

    2. Put the breadcrumbs, butter and brown sugar into a bowl, add the lemon rind and mix all well together.

    3. Stew the apples to a thick pulp with the sugar and water.

    4. Put a layer of crumb mixture in the bottom of the tin, then add a layer of apples, keeping them about 0.5inch from edge of tin.

    5. Continue in layers, finishing with a layer of breadcrumbs. Bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour.

    6. Turn out on to a hot dish.

    NOTE:
    (1) 1.5 oz of finely-chopped suet may be used instead of butter or margarine. In this case, 1 hour is required for baking.
    (2) This pudding may be made in a pie-dish if liked, then omit the lining with browned crumbs and do not turn out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 EllaCarl


    Ahhh, you're an angel!! :) I am SO delighted with this!! Thank you so much!! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭TextureLikeSun


    Ive seen that this book has been bought back into print recently and is available for a much more reasonable price.I cant remember where i saw the info but if u give me a few mins ill track it down!!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,660 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Ive seen that this book has been bought back into print recently and is available for a much more reasonable price.I cant remember where i saw the info but if u give me a few mins ill track it down!!

    Are you sure you're not thinking of All About Home Economics?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Cunning Stunt


    I also would like to try that swiss apple pudding recipe - but what exactly are 'browned crumbs'? :o


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