How to Cook recipe index

The only downside of three books in a series is that it's sometimes tricky to remember which recipe is in which book! To help, here's a rundown of the recipes in How to Cook Book One, Two and Three...

INDEX OF RECIPES – HOW TO COOK BOOK ONE

A classic sponge cake (with passion fruit filling) 132
A soufflé omelette with three cheeses and chives 50
Aligot (Mashed Potatoes with Garlic and Cheese) 180
All-in-one White Sauce
All-in-one white sauce 152
Any kind of cheese sauce 152
Apple and raisin parcels 116
Apricot galettes with Amaretto 122
Austrian coffee and walnut cake with coffee cream 135
Baked cannelloni
Baked cannelloni 230
Basic pizza dough 94
Basic shortcrust pastry 106
Blue cheese and onion omelettes
Bruschetta 91
Bruschetta with tomato and basil 91
Butterscotch and banana trifle with Madeira 64
Camargue red rice salad with feta cheese 206
Canadian buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup 166
Caramelised mincemeat ravioli 125
Cauliflower and broccoli gratin with blue cheese 153
Chinese stir-fried rice 202
Chocolate almond crunchies 143
Chorizo Hash with Peppers and Paprika 31
Classic fresh tomato sauce 221
Classic white béchamel sauce 150
Corned-beef hash with fried eggs 29
Cornmeal and mixed-seed bread 88
Croque monsieur 92
Crostini Lazio 89
Crunchy roast potatoes with saffron 184
Egg and Lentil curry with coconut and pickled lime 18
Eggs Benedict 27
Eggs en cocotte 37
Eggs en cocotte with morel or porcini mushrooms 38
English parsley sauce 158
Fatless white sauce 152
Feta cheese, spinach and pine nut galettes 121
Four seasons pizza 96
Fresh coconut layer cake 136
Gnocchi with sage, butter and Parmesan 190
Goats’ cheese, onion and potato bread with thyme 84
Gratin of eggs with peppers and chorizo 36
Gratin of rigatoni with roasted vegetables 225
Green parsley mash 182
Hollandaise sauce 70
Hot lemon curd soufflés 66
How to cook perfect pasta 217
How to cook potatoes 172
How to fry eggs 28
How to line a flan tin 107
How to make an Italian frittata 48
How to make softly scrambled eggs 32
How to poach eggs 22
How to separate eggs 55
How to whisk egg whites 57
Irish oatmeal soda bread 87
Irish tea bread 142
Irish Whiskey Christmas cakes 140
Jacket potatoes 174
Leek and goats’ cheese tart 108
Linguine with Gorgonzola, pancetta and wilted rocket 220
Low-fat moist carrot cake 138
Marinated chicken kebabs with whole spices 209
Marinated chicken with honey and ginger served with mango and sultana salsa 186
Marinated rump steak 181
Mashed potato with three mustards 182
Meatballs with spaghetti and fresh tomato sauce 224
Melted cheese frittata with four kinds of mushroom 48
Meringues with passion fruit 60
Meringues with Summer Fruit 60
Moussaka with roasted aubergines and ricotta 160
Old-fashioned English custard tart 114
Old-fashioned rice pudding 212
Open-faced egg, chive and spring onion sandwiches 20
Oriental steamed fish with ginger, soy and sesame 203
Oven-baked pork chops in maple barbecue sauce 205
Oven-baked risotto carbonara 201
Oven-roasted chunky chips 189
Oven-sauteed potatoes Lyonnaises 188
Parsnip, parmesan and sage bread 86
Pasta vialli 222
Penne with wild mushrooms and crème fraiche 223
Perfect mashed potato 176
Perfect rice 200
Petits Monts Blancs 58
Plain and simple white bread 80
Plums in Marsala 213
Poached pear galettes 123
Pork sausages braised in cider with apples and juniper 178
Potato salad with Roquefort 193
Potatoes boulangeres with rosemary 187
Prune and apple galettes 122
Pumpkin pie 112
Puttanesca pizza 97
Quattro formaggi (four cheese) pizza 95
Quick and easy flaky pastry 118
Quick and easy wholemeal loaf 82
Red onion, tomato and chilli relish 188
Roast lamb with garlic and rosemary 156
Roasted vegetable and brown rice gratin 154
Rosemary and onion sauce 156
Salmon fishcakes 159
Scrambled eggs with salmon and brioche 34
Sicilian pasta with roasted tomatoes and aubergines 228
Slimmers’ scrambled eggs 34
Smoked fish tart with a parmesan crust 110
Souffled macaroni cheese 229
Spaghetti with olive oil, garlic and chilli 218
Spiced apple muffin cake with pecan streusel topping 139
Spiced pilau rice with nuts 208
Spinach and ricotta lasagne with pine nuts 226
Spinach gnocchi with four cheeses 192
Steamed panettone pudding with Eliza Acton’s hot punch sauce 98
Stuffed jacket potatoes with leeks, cheddar and Boursin 175
Thai creamed coconut chicken 210
Thai green rice 210
Tiger prawn jambalaya 207
Toad-in-the-hole with roasted-onion gravy 165
Toast 83
Toasted cheese and chilli relish sandwich 92
Tomato and goats’ cheese galettes 120
Tortilla (Spanish omelette) 46
Traditional English custard 62
Traditional gravy 163
Twice-baked Roquefort soufflés 68
Very red rice 204
Warm spinach salad with poached eggs, frizzled kabanos and bacon 24
Watercress and caper mash 183
Welsh rarebit jacket potatoes 176
Wild mushroom tartlets with poached quails’ eggs 124

HOW TO COOK BOOK TWO

A very chocolatey mousse 238
American blue-cheese dressing 163
American chef’s salad 154
Anchoiade with toasted goats’ cheese croutons 29
Apple and almond crumble 210
Beef curry dopiaza 34
Braised peas, rocket and spring onions 129
Broad-bean salad with pancetta and sherry vinegar 155
Bubble and squeak rosti 142
Buttered leeks 125
Buttermilk scones with west country clotted cream and raspberry butter 181
Cabbage with bacon, apples and cider 140
Caramelised balsamic and red-onion tarts with goats’ cheese 228
Cauliflower soup with Roquefort 227
Cauliflower with two cheeses and crème fraiche 135
Char-grilled aubergine and roasted-tomato salad with feta cheese 158
Char-grilled tuna with warm coriander and caper vinaigrette 59
Cheat’s chocolate trifle 242
Cheese and herb fritters with sweet-pepper marmalade 229
Chicken cacciatore 99
Chocolate and prune brownies 243
Chocolate crème brulees 246
Chocolate mini muffins with toasted hazelnuts 250
Chocolate, prune and Armagnac cake 244
Chocolate-crunch torte with pistachios and sour cherries 239
Classic crème caramel 178
Coffee cappuccino creams with cream and sweet coffee sauce 188
Crisp roast duck with confit of sour cherries 104
Crumpet pizza 221
Curd cheesecake with Greek yoghurt, honey and pistachios 232
Entrecote hongroise 78
Entrecote marchand du vin 79
Entrecote steak with crème fraiche and cracked pepper sauce 175
Eton mess 182
Fast roast pork with rosemary and caramelised apples 86
Fast-roast chicken with lemon and tarragon 102
Fried herrings with oatmeal and a beetroot relish 53
Fried skate wings with very quick homemade tartare sauce 50
Fromage frais creams with red fruit compote 186
Gooseberry yoghurt fool 176
Grilled lemon chicken kebabs with gremolata 112
Guinea fowl baked with thirty cloves of garlic 111
How to joint a chicken 98
How to make a vinaigrette dressing 153
Individual steak, mushroom and kidney pies 80
Key lime pie 212
Lambs’ kidneys with two mustards 36
Latin American beef stew with marinated red-onion salad 82
Linguine with sardines, chilli and capers 30
Luxury smoked-fish pie 56
Marinated courgettes with a herb vinaigrette 139
Marinated kipper fillets and potato salad with coriander seeds and cracked peppers 164
Marinated pork with jerk seasoning and grilled pineapple salsa 32
Melting chocolate puddings 240
Mexican enchiladas with cheese 222
Mexican guacamole 31
Mini boeufs en croute 84
Miniature choc ices 248
Old-fashioned rhubarb trifle 207
Oriental pork casserole with stir-fried green vegetables 37
Oven-fried onions 127
Oven-roasted carrots with garlic and coriander 138
Oven-roasted fish with potatoes and salsa verde 60
Oven-roasted winter vegetables 134
Pad Thai noodles with shrimps 28
Paella 106
Pasta with four cheeses 226
Pecan shortbreads with raspberries and raspberry puree 184
Plum and cinnamon oat slices 205
Pork chops with a confit of prunes, apples and shallots 89
Preserved ginger cake with lemon icing 38
Pumpkin soup with toasted sweetcorn 143
Quick-braised celery 138
Roast leg of lamb with Shrewsbury sauce 90
Roast quail wrapped in pancetta and vine leaves with grape confit 110
Roasted butterflied tiger prawns in garlic butter 58
Roasted figs with Gorgonzola and honey-vinegar sauce 208
Roasted fish with a parmesan crust 52
Roasted salmon fillets with a crusted pecorino and pesto topping 62
Salade nicoise 161
Sautéed mushrooms 126
Semolina gnocchi with Gorgonzola 230
Shepherd’s pie with cheese-crusted leeks 76
Slow-cooked root vegetable soup 141
Smoked haddock with crème fraiche, chive and butter sauce 174
Spanish braised pork with potatoes and olives 88
Spiced carnaroli rice salad 160
Spiced oranges in port 209
Stir-fried chicken with lime and coconut 107
Thai fish curry with mango 203
Thai fishcakes with sesame and lime dipping sauce 54
Thai grilled-beef salad with grapes 162
Tiger prawn risotto with lobster sauce 61
Toasted goats’ cheese with blackened sherry-vinegar onions 224
Toffee fudge bananas with toasted nuts 177
Traditional roast chicken with apple, sage and onion stuffing, cranberry and sage sauce and chicken-giblet gravy 108
Tropical fruit salad in planter’s punch 202
Tunisian aubergine salad with coriander and yoghurt 136
Welsh rabbit with sage and onions 220
White bean and tuna fish salad with lemon pepper dressing 156

HOW TO COOK BOOK THREE

Ajo blanco – chilled almond soup 51
Alain’s passion fruit brulee 59
Almost mayonnaise 126
Almost vinaigrette 125
Antipasti 214
Anya potato salad with shallots and vinaigrette 224
Baked apple meringues with orange-soaked raisins 144
Baked whole salmon with sauce verte 222
Belarussian carrot salad 44
Bloody mary soup with vodka tomato salsa 121
Bloody mary tomatoes 230
Blue-cheese dressing 125
Braised beef goulash with smoked pimenton 24
Braised lamb shanks with cannelloni beans 76
Braised sausages with borlotti beans, rosemary and sage 92
Bread-and-butter pudding 183
Brown and wild rice salad with dried cranberries 207
Buttermilk scones with Cheshire cheese and chives 30
Canary lemon sponge puddings with lemon curd cream 174
Cappuccino cheesecakes 146
Caramelised onion tartlets with goats’ cheese and thyme 206
Carrot and artichoke soup 50
Celeriac and Lancashire cheese bread 49
Char-grilled squid with chilli jam 168
Chicken liver pate with Cognac, with sweet-and-sour red onion salad 158
Chinese steamed trout with ginger and spring onions 130
Chocolate ricotta cheesecake 212
Chunky green salad 224
Coarse country pate 154
Courgette and potato cakes with mint and feta cheese 194
Curried turkey salad with dried fruits 204
Dark apricot and almond conserve 102
David’s chocolate fudge with roasted nuts and raisins 232
Easter simnel cake 34
Easy omelette Arnold Bennett 25
Eggs and leeks en cocotte 131
Eggs mayonnaise 166
English potted crab 156
Filled focaccia with ham and melted Fontina 56
Giardiniere pickles (Italian garden pickles) 110
Globe artichokes with shallot vinaigrette 163
Gooseberry crème fraiche tart 226
Greek orange and honey syrup cake with yoghurt and pistachios 198
Grilled polenta with ham, cheese and sage 167
Grilled venison steaks with red onion, grape and raisin confit 143
Gruyere jacket potato halves with chives 204
Hummus bi tahina 78
Individual queen of puddings with morello cherry conserve 177
Individual Sussex pond puddings with lemon butter sauce 184
Lemon curd 103
Lemon roulade 210
Lucy’s tarte Tatin 32
Marinated chicken brochettes with green couscous 122
Marmalade soufflés 147
Mexican chicken chilli with yellow tomato salsa 87
Mini Yorkshire puddings with rare beef and horseradish-and-mustard crème fraiche 205
Mixed vegetable salad a la Grecque 195
Molasses brandy snap baskets 67
Old English apple hat 182
Old-fashioned shin of beef stew with butter beans and crusted onion dumplings 88
Oriental chicken 134
Oriental green beans with red chillies and toasted sesame seeds 135
Pasta with pepper relish 141
Pepper-crusted fillet of beef with roasted balsamic onions and thyme 22
Pickled okra 112
Pickled peppers and courgettes 113
Pistachio ice cream 196
Pistachio wafers 197
Pitta bread 54
Poppy and sesame seed rolls 57
Preserved ginger ice cream 66
Quails’ eggs with cracked pepper and salt 230
Roasted red pepper and tomato tart 164
Savoury mini muffins with two flavourings 228
Scottish semolina shortbread 31
Sea bass with Puy lentil salsa 128
Sesame blancmange with sweetened compote of adzuki beans 93
Shaun Hill’s sautéed scallops with lentil sauce 79
Slimmers’ wild mushroom risotto 139
Slow-cooked celery and celeriac soup 48
Smoked collar of bacon with pease pudding and creamy onion mustard sauce 80
Smoked mackerel pate with ricotta and capers 157
Smoky tomato chutney 108
Souffled Arbroath smokies in smoked salmon with foaming hollandaise 162
Souffled sole creams with champagne sauce and salmon caviar 160
Sour dill pickles 114
Spiced bread pudding with brandy cream 176
Spiced chickpea cakes with red onion and coriander salad 86
Spiced cranberry and claret jelly 104
Spiced damson chutney 105
Spiced lamb curry with chickpeas, green coconut sambal and tomato-and-red-onion pickle 90
Spiced lamb koftas braised in tomato sauce 192
Spiced mustard pickle (piccalilli) 109
Spiced pickled Agen prunes in Armagnac 106
Spike’s apple sorbet 65
Spotted dick rides again 180
Squidgy chocolate cakes with prunes in Marsala 148
Steamed cod with nori and soba noodle salad 136
Stuffed yellow peppers with pilau rice, currants and toasted pine nuts 193
Summer fruit brulee 60
Swordfish ceviche 124
Teriyaki grilled marinated salmon with marinated cucumber and sesame salad 142
Thai crab salad with mango 140
Thai pork satays with thai peanut sauce 208
The London particular – green split pea soup 82
Thousand island dressing 125
Traditional lasagne al forno 215
Traditional lemon meringue pie 28
Traditional Seville orange marmalade 100
Tropical fruit jellies 145
Turkey saltimbocca 132
Tuscan bean and pasta soup with rosemary 84
Vanilla bean ice cream with espresso 69
Vegetarian shepherd’s pie with goats’ cheese mash 83
Very sticky prune and date cake 27
Warm chocolate rum soufflés with chocolate sauce 178
Watercress soup 220
Zabaglione 40
Zabaglione ice cream with biscotti 64
Zabaglione torta 218