Foreign food goods

[halfateabag]

I must Google that one, I am not familiar with it...

[herbidacious]

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/col ... lpine-eggs

[Suffs]

I have a long time memory of someone on tv demonstrating a variation of this with the eggs carefully separated, the whites whipped to a soft peak, then piled onto the cheese, and the individual yolks put into hollows in the ‘mountainous’ whites … then sprinkled with cheese and baked.

[Earthmaiden]

Memorable for all the wrong reasons as far as I can see, Suffs .

[Stokey Sue]

I think I saw that version Suffs mentions, and like you Earthmaiden I didn’t fancy it, think that may be why I’ve never made alpine eggs.

The whipped whites version seems to be called Cloud Eggs
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/cloud-eggs/

[Gruney]

Alpine Eggs, or an Alpine egg, in my case was pretty much the first thing I made years ago from `Delia Smith's "One is Fun". I know the book has had its detractors, but it got me started all those years ago,and I am grateful to it.

ps - Now I know what I'm going to have for a late lunch/early tea before I leave for Book Club,at 6.30.

[herbidacious]

Me too, Gruney.

I still have it somewhere.

[Earthmaiden]

Gruney, Alpine Eggs look fine. Cloud Eggs don't! I wonder how many people learnt to cook via Delia.

[herbidacious]

She's still my go to for revising basics and traditional things.

[scullion]

my go to for basic recipes is the good housekeeping recipe book i bought in the seventies...

[Badger's Mate]

The woman formerly not known as Mrs B asked for a number of Delia books as wedding presents, in the hope of reining me in a bit…

To be fair she’s (Delia that is!) always a good first port of call, and I’d already got an old paperback of Frugal Food, but I too used one of mum’s old Good Housekeeping volumes. These days I check out Tessa Kiros as well.

[herbidacious]

I suppose the the Complete Delia came out around or shortly after the time I started to take an interest in cooking. (Mid teens.) We didn't have a lot of cookery books at home. The Marguerite Pattern Cooking in Colour one my mother had was probably bought when/because she got married. (Published the same year, I think.)